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Hello!
I found a nice video tutorial aimed at Debian 6.x users. I have Ubuntu 14.04 My question is... Can I just blindly use on modern Ubuntu system what they showed on older Debian system? Or should I be careful here? What's the risk, if any? Especially regarding LAMP install and commands (and also Apache configuration). Apache 2.2 back then (right?) and now it's 2.4... What do you think?
Ubuntu tend to mess with Debian - especially any GUI applications.
There's a very good chance that command line install/configuration is probably OK.
You will need to use only Ubuntu packages though - you can't install current Debian packages.
Mixing Ubuntu packages with Debian packages is guaranteed to fail in a bad way.
I don't use VM. I wasn't asking about packages, but the SYNTAX of commands. For example, he teaches about Samba clients. The command (he uses Debian) he enters in his terminal is:
aptitude install smbclient
I know that usually in Ubuntu's terminal I use apt-get install command, so it's different.
That's what I was asking in my original post. Not about VMs and packages.
Hello!
I found a nice video tutorial aimed at Debian 6.x users. I have Ubuntu 14.04 My question is... Can I just blindly use on modern Ubuntu system what they showed on older Debian system? Or should I be careful here? What's the risk, if any? Especially regarding LAMP install and commands (and also Apache configuration). Apache 2.2 back then (right?) and now it's 2.4... What do you think?
It depends on what is in the tutorial. If you follow it blindly the result will most likely be a broken system. Anything involving adding repositories to sources.list should be avoided. My suggestion is to search for what you want to do and find up to date written documentation.
I would suspect that Ubuntu would load a number of extra "recommended" packages for each install.
So you might have a few extra packages.
Any time from now until a couple of years into the future, this has the potential to cause knock-on dependency problems.
This is really unlikely though.
Maybe I can just double-check what I'm following before actually doing it on Ubuntu?
You should be doing that anyway when you're following ANY instructions on the web, regardless of distro/version mismatches.
Blindly following a set of command line instructions on some random blog on the web without even thinking about what you're running and why is a good way to break your system.
Last edited by suicidaleggroll; 06-15-2015 at 11:35 AM.
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