Phase Shift

This guide is a step by step walk through for setting up an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64-bit server on Linode.

Assuming a Linode 360 with 12288 megs of space, partition as follows:

• Ubuntu Image: 11776MB
• Swap: 512

The default swap size is only 256MB, but the recommended standard is to use between 1 to 2 times the amount of RAM installed on the machine. A base Linode has 360MB of RAM, so 512 is a safe size to use.

Getting Started

First thing, grab your favorite text editor, such as nano or vi using aptitude or apt-get.

aptitude install nano

If you would like auto completion in interactive shells, edit your bash.bashrc file

nano /etc/bash.bashrc

and uncomment the following block to look as follows

[...]
# enable bash completion in interactive shells
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
fi
[...]

For some reason bash-completion is not installed by default

aptitude install bash-completion

There is no need to reboot, just restart bash and autocomplete should be working for interactive shells

bash

To try it out, you can do something like ‘aptitude inst<tab>’ and it should complete as ‘aptitude install’

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