Re: installing Apache

pakku@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I got a PC with a preloaded OS called Linspire which as it turns out is
a Debian variant. I am trying to install Apache 2.2.0 on this. The
Linspire support group endorses a paid service called CNR for all app
installs and I am trying to buck this. Hence my posting here.

First, you should ditch Linspire and install generic Debian, IMHO. I can't see any reason to use Linspire if you don't like their paid services (which is the main thing that differentiates them from other Debian derivatives, AFAICT).

I followed the instructions on the Apache website and got the download
and extract right. Then I ran ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache
There were tonnes of messages on the console and then it came back to
the prompt. But I didn't see any directory created under /usr/local
called apache.

The configure process doesn't normally do that. That would be created during "make" or "make install" instead. You need to read (and understand) the error messages from the configure script. It will tell you if it has succeeded or failed. If it fails, you have to address the reason for that before moving on. The most common reason for failure is not having all the dependancies in place. On Debian distros this means not only having the necessary run-time libraries installed, but also their corresponding -dev packages for the compilation process. I suspect that Linspire might not install these by default. If configure fails for that reason, make will fail miserably.


IIRC, Linspire is based on Debian/unstable. So it should use the APT utilities for package management. If I were you, I'd edit /etc/apt/sources.list to contain the two lines:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main

(Comment out any others by putting a # sign as the first character of the line.)

Then you should be able to run (as root) 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. Then you'll be running Debian, effectively. Then 'apt-get install apache2' will install Apache (and all its required dependancies).

Note that in your /etc/apt/sources.list file you could replace the word "unstable" with either "testing" or "stable" (in which case you should also add a line for security.debian.org) for more stable packages, if you wish. The "unstable" variant is bleeding edge (but that might be what you want).
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