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[kramerjm at gmail.com (James Kramer)]

I setup   Lamp  and Joomla on both Ubuntu and Debian Etch.  Here are the
packages, modules and config to get going

$ sudo aptitude install apache2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-php5
libapache2-mod-python php5-mysql

Note  the addition of php5-mysql to the original postings

sudo vi /etc/php5/apache2$/php.ini
find and enable the following lines by removing the ' ; ' in the front of
each line
extension=mysql.so
extension=gd.so

Debian has some different MySql configuration that Ubuntu.  This is a brief
summary in case anyone is interested.  if anyone is interested I'll post
more.

I think that Joomla will be fun!

Jay

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