Freeside:2.1:Documentation:Installation

1. Install the base system

- Only select the OpenSSH Package

2. Configure the network

Change the server to static IP

nano /etc/network/interfaces

Replace the below settings with you own ip addresses etc

# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.0.100
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.0.0
        broadcast 192.168.0.255
        gateway 192.168.0.1

Set the hostname correctly

nano /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.0.100   server1.example.com     server1

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

echo server1.example.com > /etc/hostname
/etc/init.d/hostname restart

3. Update the system

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

4. Install core packages

Keep the system time correct

apt-get install ntp ntpdate

Main Packages

apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2 Apache2 postgresql-8.4

Perl Packages

apt-get install libwww-perl liburi-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-parser-perl libdbd-pg-perl libtimedate-perl libdate-manip-perl libchart-perl