https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

In the teminal:

• $ sudo tasksel install lamp-server
• $ sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin
• $ sudo gedit /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
  • Add the following to the end of this file:  “Include /etc/phpmyadmin/apache.conf”
• Edit the /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini file and increase the memory_limit value. I used 64M, but that may be overkill.

First open ~/.barshrc in a text editor and uncomment lines 73 through 75 so they look like this:

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
. ~/.bash_aliases
fi

Then create a file called .bash_aliases in your home directory (if it doesn’t already exist). Edit that file like so:

alias themename="cd ~/public_html/websitename/wp-content/themes/themename/"


Restart terminal (or source .bashrc with $ source ~/.bashrc, or even terser $. .bashrc), type in themename and press enter. Voila! Your are cd’ed all the way into that deeply nested file without having to type the whole thing. This works great for lots of other common commands that are a little too verbose:

alias ins="sudo apt-get install"


Once those lines are added to your .bash_aliases file and you restart terminal, you will be able to install new packages like so:

ins packagename

Handy eh? (That last suggestion is courtesy of the always useful Lifehacker)

Create an empty file in the current directory from the command line:

$ touch filename

To install VirtualBox, I got a lot of help from hopla on the Ubuntu Forum. I quote:

You need: virtualbox, qemu, wine

Code:

apt-get install virtualbox qemu wine

Download the free(!) Microsoft Internet Explorer Application Compatibility Check VPC Images here.

(Note: you don’t have to download the full pack, you can cherry pick specific combinations of XP/Vista and IE6-8)

Extract the VPC image(s) with wine (double-click).
(Note: it might take a while before the first window shows up)

Turn the VPC image(s) into (a) VMWare image(s) (which is/are readable by VirtualBox):

qemu-img convert -f vpc image.vhd -O vmdk image.vmdk

Setup a new VM in VirtualBox, using the vmdk image as an existing disk. Boot it, you will see the Windows boot progress bar and … it will BSOD shortly after.

Fixing the BSOD:

The BSOD is caused because the virtual Windows tries to load processor drivers for the wrong processor (it is not running on VirtualPC proc, but on VirtualBox proc). Or something like that…
We need to force Windows not to attempt to load drivers for the processor (it doesn’t need any proc drivers, because it’s all virtual anyway).
Start safe mode by (frantically) hitting F8 at Windows boot and choosing safe mode.

Ignore all the ‘New hardware’ detected warnings (we will deal with those later). Start a command box and run the following command to disable the loading of processor drivers:

Code:

sc config processor start= disabled

(note the space between ‘=’ and ‘disabled’!)

Restart the virtual Windows, it should now boot all the way to the Windows Desktop.

Once your virtual Windows has rebooted, go to Devices -> Install Guest Additions in the VirtualBox window.  This will mount a (virtual) CD with the Guest Additions software.  The autorun feature didn’t work every time, so if a new window doesn’t open up, find the Guest Additions CD in Windows Explorer and run the .exe.  This adds a lot of functionality to your virtual machine.

After rebooting the virtual machine, I followed the instructions from Primeval Soup:

In Windows, go to:

Start > Run > “cmd”

In the terminal, type:

D:\VBoxWindowsAdditions-x86.exe /extract /D=C:\Drivers

Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management

Select Device Manager.

Select Batteries, Unknown Device -> Disable

Select Sound, video and game controllers, Multimedia Audio Controller -> Disable

Select Universal Serial Bus controllers, Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller -> Disable

Select Network Adapters, Ethernet Controller -> Update Driver

Select Yes, now and every time, click Next

Select Install from a list or specific location, click Next

Enter location “C:\Drivers\x86\Network\AMD”

Click Finish

Open a browser, test connection

You’re done!

And that is a good feeling.

change directory: cd

change local directory: lcd

list directory contents: ls

list local directory contents: !ls

print local working directory: lpwd

Put a file: put filename

Put multiple files: mput filename1 filename2

Get a file: get filename

Get multiple files: mget filename1 filename2

To login to a host with sftp:

lftp -u username sftp://username.server.com

To get a folder including all subfolders:

mirror filename

To put a whole folder and all its contents, without mirroring file permissions:

mirror -R -p filename

Snippets for HTML

Here’s a list of all the Snippets for html files. They are listed by tag names, with the TAB trigger in paratheses. These will only work in html files, other files have different snippets.

• Base (base)
• Body (body)
• Br (Shift+Ctrl+Space)
• Div (div)
• Form (form)
• Head (head)
• Heading (h)
• HTML — 4.01 Strict (doctype)
• HTML — 4.0 Transitional (doctype)
• Input (input)
• Link (link)
• Mail Anchor (mailto)
• Meta (meta)
• Non-Breaking Space (Ctrl+Alt+Space)
• Script (script)
• Script With External Source (scriptsrc)
• Style (style)
• Table (table)
• Table Row (tr)
• Text Area (textarea)
• Title (title)
• Wrap Selection as Link (ref, Shift+Alt+L)
• Wrap Selection in Open/Close Tag (Shift+Alt+W)
• XHTML — 1.0 Frameset (doctype)
• XHTML — 1.0 Strict (doctype)
• XHTML — 1.0 Tran (doctype)
• XHTML — 1.1 (doctype)