Hey just moved over form fedora to debian

Just wondering how to install lots of programs at once

apache, myql, php, etc..

Can you help me with this?

Thanks

Just list them. For example,

Package mysql is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package mysql has no installation candidate

apt-get's very handy if you know the exact name of the package you're looking for. If you don't, it isn't handy.

A Synaptic search for mysql pops up a bunch of packages for me, but I don't see any that are called plain old mysql.

You can run "apt-cache search mysql" to find out the actual package names that you want to install. Or you can browse & install packages from aptitude (just type "aptitude"), which is another frontend to Debian's package management system APT.

ok i can not seam to install anything i am getting these error messages

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Suggested packages:
procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre
Recommended packages:
resolvconf
The following packages will be REMOVED:
exim4-base exim4-config
The following NEW packages will be installed:
postfix
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 802kB of archives.
After unpacking 250kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ftp.esat.net stable/main postfix 2.1.5-9 [802kB]
Fetched 802kB in 6s (118kB/s)
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
(Reading database ... 9522 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing exim4-base ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
dpkg: error processing exim4-base (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Removing exim4-config ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process
dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
exim4-base
exim4-config
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Do you have Synaptic Package Manager open while you're trying to use apt-get? Only one at a time.

no do not

is there any way that i can uninstall all packets it was trying to install and work from scratch

or remove apt-get and install something else

I am using ssh for all this