Setting up the Slicehost Account

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sudo apt-get update
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I know there are plenty of articles and posts for setting up a development server. Yet I still find the need to write up the exact commands and process for my later self to refer to, especially since I haven’t found a clone function in VMware Fusion like the linux version has. A pet “when-I-have-time” project would be to turn these steps into a bash script. Continue reading

This is on a freshly installed Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Modify version numbers as needed

1. install g++
   sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd

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