The perfect setup - 6.10 server Pge 4 software installation

[anotherbigal]

Hi
I am following the Edgy Eft setup instructions but when I got to page 4 (8) and tried to "Install some software" I got the error message
"E: Couldn't find package libd4.3-dev"
I copied and pasted the instructions so it is not a typo. Anyone got any thoughts please. I havn't gone any further as, being a very green newbie at this I have no idea how important this is and if any subsequent actionms depend on having that file installed

[till]

You seem to have a typo in your command, the package is named libdb4.3-dev and not libd4.3-dev

[anotherbigal]

Hi Till, Thank you for the advice. Do not know how that happened. As I said it was pasted in, but when I looked the original is as you say. Will it be ok to run the whole command again? i.e.

apt-get install binutils cpp cpp-4.0 fetchmail flex gcc gcc-4.0 libarchive-zip-perl libc6-dev libcompress-zlib-perl libdb4.3-dev libpcre3 libpopt-dev linux-kernel-headers lynx m4 make ncftp nmap openssl perl perl-modules unzip zip zlib1g-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool bison autotools-dev g++

Or should I just install that particulr part, and please, if so how?

[martinfst]

You can re-enter the same command. It will give a message about the already installed packages (if any)

[anotherbigal]

Hi again
Still working at page 4. When i ran apt-get install bind9 this came back
l# apt-get install bind9
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
bind9-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed
bind9
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 300kB of archives.
After unpacking 741kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main bind9 1:9.3.2-2ubuntu3.1 [300kB]
Fetched 300kB in 2s (128kB/s)
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true returned an error code (100)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true

I think that is two error messages and now do not know if it is ok or not?

[martinfst]

It's not oke, but I noticed myself some weird Ubuntu update quircks yesterday. Please try the apt-get command again. Maybe a hickup in the repositories?

[anotherbigal]

I repeated the apt-get install quota again, then followed on with the remaining 5 instructions but still do not think all is as it should be. Here is the output.
# apt-get install quota
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
quota is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
root@server1:/home/bigal# touch /quota.user /quota.group
touch: cannot touch `/quota.user': Permission denied
touch: cannot touch `/quota.group': Permission denied
root@server1:/home/bigal# chmod 600 /quota.*
chmod: changing permissions of `/quota.group': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of `/quota.user': Operation not permitted
root@server1:/home/bigal# mount -o remount /
root@server1:/home/bigal# quotacheck -avugm
quotacheck: Scanning /dev/hda1 [/] done
quotacheck: Checked 1794 directories and 23170 files
root@server1:/home/bigal# quotaon -avug
quotaon: using //quota.group on /dev/hda1 [/]: Device or resource busy
quotaon: using //quota.user on /dev/hda1 [/]: Device or resource busy
root@server1:/home/
Can anyone help please?

[till]

Please make sure that you are logged in as root user.

[anotherbigal]

Thank you for the reply
I think I was logged in as root, but now, when I tried so I could repeat the commands This came uplogin as: bigal
bigal@192.168.0.10's password:
Linux server1.example.com 2.6.17-10-server #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:29:32 UTC 2006 i686

The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
Last login: Tue Feb 13 09:25:37 2007 from 192.168.0.11
-bash: /usr/bin/lesspipe: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Not a directory
bigal@server1:~$ su
Password:
bash: /usr/bin/groups: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Not a directory
bash: /usr/bin/lesspipe: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Not a directory
root@server1:/home/bigal#

I appear to be logged in as root but now get these additional messages. I suppose this is the trouble with not knowing what I am doing, just following instructions and trying to learn from that.

[falko]

Did you accidentally delete these files?
I think the best is to do a clean re-install of the system.

[anotherbigal]

I was wondering if I had done something like that.
Ok. I will start again.
Thank you all for your help. It's all part of the learning curve

[anotherbigal]

Hi again
As you suggested, I have reinstalled from a clean disk . Carfully checking that there were no typo's this time round. A different problem now.# apt-get install binutils cpp cpp-4.0 fetchmail flex gcc gcc-4.0 libarchive-zip-perl libc6-dev libcompress-zlib-perl libdb4.3-dev libpcre3 libpopt-dev lynx m4 make ncftp nmap openssl perl perl-modules unzip zip zlib1g-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool bison autotools-dev g++
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ncftp
This was cut and pasted into putty, but with the linux-kernal-headers removed as suggested earlier. I tried to re-run but got the same response. Where to go from here please?

[till]

Thats not critical, you can leave out ncftp. Just execute the command again but without ncftp in it.

[anotherbigal]

Thanks for the advice. Will do.

[anotherbigal]

Hi again.
After a long pause I am back trying to get my set up completed again.
I have got MySQL set up but am having trouble setting passwords. Here is my output
root@server1:/home/bigal# mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)'
root@server1:/home/bigal# mysqladmin -h server1.example.com -u root password yourrootsqlpassword
mysqladmin: connect to server at 'server1.example.com' failed
error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'server1.example.com' (using password: NO)'
root@server1:/home/bigal#

Can anyone offer any help as to how to set the passwords please?

[till]

Your server seems to have a password already. Have you set it before or is this a root server where your provider has already setup a password for mysql?

[anotherbigal]

This was a clean install on a new machine so the only passwords that have been entered are my user password and my root password. There is only me here so there will be no others.

[till]

Are you able to login to mysql when you enter:

mysql -u root -p

and then enter your root password? You can quit the mysql promt by enetring "quit;".

[anotherbigal]

Hi Till

I am not able to log in to MySQL as you suggested. I get this response
root@server1:/home/bigal# MySQL -u root -p
Enter password:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
root@server1:/home/bigal#

I am at a loss to explain where I could have entered another password. I have used two. One is my user and one as my root password. What is more, now I do not know what my MySQL password could be, or, even if I did know, how I could go about changing it.
By the way, I tried to access MySQL both from my user account as well as when I was root, and tried both passwords, both times.

[till]

Please try this:

1) stop mysql with the start / stop script.
2) Open a new second SSH connection with e.g. putty and execute:

mysqld --skip-grant-tables

this starts mysql without authentication.

3) Now try to set a new mysql password in your first console with:

mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword

4) Kill the mysql process in your second console that we started in 2) by pressing the keys: [ctrl] + c

[anotherbigal]

Thank you for the advice.
I was unable to change the password though
mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword
mysqladmin:
You cannot use 'password' command as mysqld runs
with grant tables disabled (was started with --skip-grant-tables).
Use: "mysqladmin flush-privileges password '*'" instead
root@server1:/home/bigal# mysqladmin flush-privileges password '*'
mysqladmin: unable to change password; error: 'Can't find any matching row in the user table'
As you see I unsuccessfully tried the alternative '*' wildcard, but which ever way I tried I was unable to set a password.

[falko]

Try this link instead: http://community.postnuke.com/Article1273.htm