So everyone at work was telling me how I should try out Debian on my server at work because it is so much more stable then Ubuntu – Currently running Ubuntu 12.04 LTE server edition.
So I headed over to http://mirrors.xmission.com and downloaded a copy of Debian.
Then I fired up my virt-manager from my local machine and created a 50GB virtual drive on my main server. 4 cores and 8GB ram.
Started the installation and choose SSH Server and Standard System Utilities on the software selection.
All went well and now at a command prompt to log in.
Logged in and the first thing I wanted to do is install VIM and ctags
So trying to sudo to root – I noticed that my user was not in the sudoers file – then I realized that I created a password for the root user when I installed. Doing this it does not install sudo on the machine. I guess some sort of precautionary measure.
So I had to su to root – then do an apt-get install sudo to install sudo .. very easy.
Then I added my user to the sudo file with: adduser user sudoers
Now I was able to apt-get install vim and ctags with no issues.
Now what do I do with it?