Install

apt

Follow these notes to setup the apt, apt, sources.list file.

apt-get install openssh-server

aptitude install bash-completion
echo ". /etc/bash_completion" >> .bashrc

apt-get install ntp ntpdate

Note: On Ubuntu server, sudo apt-get install ntp. https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/serverguide.pdf

Edit:

vim /etc/default/ntpdate

Change the value of NTPSERVERS so it reads:

NTPSERVERS="tock.eclipse.co.uk"

Restart ntp by running

/etc/init.d/ntp restart

The clock should be synchronised daily:

vim /etc/cron.daily/ntpsync.sh

Add the following to the file:

ntpdate ntp.ubuntu.com

The file must also be executable:

chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/ntpsync.sh

To clear out the rubbish from the message of the day file:

echo "" > /etc/motd

To stop the server shutting down when a user presses Ctrl, Alt, Delete, edit:

vim /etc/inittab

And comment out this line:

# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
#ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now

apt-get install file

If you want, you can use the links web browser:

apt-get install links2

Follow the Debian, Java install notes, Java.

apt-get install make
apt-get install build-essential

To extract the Maven maven-2.0.4-bin.tar.bz2 file you will need to install bzip2:

apt-get install bzip2

apt-get install subversion

apt-get install python

Note: python 2.5 is the default version in Debian 5.