[ILUG] Free Linux? Newbe Q

[Robert Synnott]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:02:48 +0100, John Reilly <jr at inconspicuous.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 17:21, John P. Looney wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 04:42:31PM +0100, Andoni mentioned:
> > > What I want to do is install Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, PHP. Stick it in behind
> > > my Firewall and bob's your uncle. I don't care about applications on it at
> > > all.
> >
> >  I'd say just go and hide. Tomcat is just one of the nastiest pieces of
> > software I've ever tried to install. You can get it all packaged for your
> > for RedHat, but loads of the packages conflict. The fact that it requires
> > many non-free components, like Java, doesn't help.
> >

Do you really need to do it with packages? If there's no special
reason to do so, then it's fairly easy to install with the
Apache-supplied binaries...
Rob.