[waynejkruse10]

You know how there are programs like cuteftp, ftpexplorer and FlashFXP for Windows so you can upload files to your webserver. Well, i have set up a webserver on a home computer. Running Linux (Ubuntu), Apache, Php, Mysql and everything i need to run a forum. This computer will be plugged into school to be used for a local school forum for students and teachers to discuss things and get news and all sorts of stuff. This computer will be placed in the server room and the server room isnt always accessable so we want this computer to be able to be controlled (file wise) from any computer around the school rather than bugging the Admin (who is very busy switching from Novell to Windows Server 2003*) to get into the room.

So my question is, what software do i need to install so i can access my /var/www folder (my webserver folder) remotely via. FTP.


*The admin sadly changing the server from Linux based server to a Windows based server . The only reason he is doing this is because when the admin retires, the next admin can actually use and manage the server even though Novell is superiour the **** education department doesnt support it because they have a deal with microsoft. So tecnically we are not allowed to run Ubuntu on this student project server, but this may be supprising but i tried getting it running on Ubuntu, and it was much easier than getting it running on Windows 2000

[horndude]

proftpd for ftp access(it may be already on the system)

telnet or ssh so you can do remote admin to the system, telnet and/or ssh definitely should be part of the system, if it isnt, Ubuntu hasnt done their homework

and if your looking for a linux version of a FTP client, try gftp which is the gnome ftp client

[waynejkruse10]

Ok....

I got proftpd, and did the ./configure and it checked for gcc, cc, cc, cl and it couldnt find any of them so it cant find a suitible c compiler.

So i went to Synaptic and i looked for GCC and i found that GCC-3.3-Base was installed but GCC-3.3 wasnt, so i marked GCC-3.3 for installation but it told me that these packages needed to be removed before GCC is installed"

Language Pack En
Language Pack Base
Libapache-Mod-PHP4
Libc6-dev
Libc6-i686
Locales
lsb
Php4
Php4-cgi
Php4-cli
Php4-Mysql
ubuntu-base
ubuntu-desktop

Now i know several of them are very important especially the last 2 and any of the ones mentioning PHP or Apache because i need them for the server.

How do i install GCC without uninstalling all this other stuff?

[horndude]

To be honest I have no clue, this is one of the reasons I stay far away from Ubuntu or any other distro like it. GCC should easily be installed or uninstalled along with libtool,automake, bison, etc.......and they should all be separate packages.

I would look for a proftpd rpm or whatever package system Ubuntu uses and try that, seems like an awful lot to go thru to install GCC by having to remove all that other stuff first. Im guessing GCC isnt even on there to begin with, just the C libraries which it depends on, and the other packages it needs to remove first must have been compiled against a different C library version than what it will install with GCC. They do have to match.

Might want to check linuxquestions.org in the ubuntu section and do a search for GCC and see what others have had to deal with before you just jump in and start installing or removing stuff, there may be an easier way.

[waynejkruse10]

ok then. It seems if i want to install any program it prompts me to uninstall all this stuff.

[horndude]

thats freakin weird

[waynejkruse10]

yeah i know, mabye i might just use samba or something.

[Sevoma]

just use the package on the repository :/. I recomend just using debian. it saves a lot of work.

[waynejkruse10]

i tried to install debian once, it was too hard.