“The first thing you’ll need is fairly obvious. A box of some
form running a GNU/Linux flavor of some sort (Or BSD, Solaris,
etc). Fortunately, there are lots of boxes laying around in most
educational and business environments running this weird thing
called windows that are perfect candidates for such
liberations.”
“So, from this point forward, we’ll assume you have a x86
computer running Debian GNU/Linux. We’ll also assume you have a
basic understanding of how to use a UNIX shell, and that you have
superuser access to the machine. Everything in this example can be
done remotely via ssh or telnet as well as locally from the machine
console.”
“First off, you will want to set up a directory structure to
install and compile everything. Some people use the standard
locations when installing everything. If you’re only running a few
machines, or only one OS, there’s nothing wrong with this. You can
install everything in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin or
/export/home/web or wherever your OS of choice decides to put
things.”