Hi friends,

I need to do a Red Hat Linux Server installation with Apache, Apache JServ, mySQL , Samba Server, a FTP server all running as daemons.

I have 3 questions,

a. I have the latest copy of the Apache with me and would like to install the lastest copy myself, so I dont want the RHL server installation process to do the apache installation which comes bundled along with it. Is it possible ?

b. A server installation does not have X(or so it seemed when I first did it). So what would I need to do to install X along with the server installation ?

c. All this I want to do on a machine with 16 MB Ram . Would that be less ? If yes , how much would the minimum reqd. Ram be ?

Thanks a lot for your time,
Ashwin

I would not recommend running Xwindows on anything less than 64MB. It is very possible to run it on less...but it won't run very well.

You can certainly run all of that on a machine with 16MB of RAM, but that's probably not a good idea either. You will be hitting the SWAP file all the time.
16MB is the bare minimum requirements according to Redhat, but I would go as high as you can get it. I just bought 256MB of PC133 for about $90 so its dirt cheap. CPU speed is less important, but Pentium class is preferred.

A "server" installation does not include XWindows, but you can upgrade your installation to include it, or you can reinstall doing a "custom" installation. Or you can simply go get the RPM's or source and install it.

As far as Apache goes, what's wrong with the version that comes with RH7? Its been tested and certified to work with everything else included with Redhat. Don't get caught up in the mentalilty of always having to have the latest version of everything.

Its just my opinion, but I would stick with everything that comes with your distribution and NOT upgrade unless you have a SPECIFIC need to do so.

I would recommend that you always do a custom install with any distro. Pick and choose what you want and deselect what you don't.

Hi Kevin,

When I did a custom install and deselected the 'www web server' choice , the apache was still loaded . how is that possible ? I have red hat linux 6.2 and not 7 . would that be a problem ?

Also how do I uninstall any software installed on linux .. for example suppose I would like to uninstall mySQL which is already installed on my linux machine?

Thanks,
Ashwin

I am not sure about the Apache.. unless you picked something that depended on its installation and then agreed to install all package dependencies. That could have installed Apache I think.

Uninstalling software with RPM is simple.
Use 'rpm -qa | grep apache' to see what Apache packages are installed for instance:

[joubert@CXO336745-x86-RH7 joubert]$ rpm -qa | grep apache
apache-1.3.12-25

Thats what I get. Then you just:

rpm -e apache-1.3.12-25

This will attempt to uninstall the package. If there are other packages that depend on this one.. you will get an error message. You will need to uninstall the reported packages first.

Redhat v6.2 was a very good version. I am using v7.0 and I like it. Others have reported problems, but I haven't seen any.