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I’ve had some interest in Moodle as a Learning Management System (LMS) lately. Here’s a quick guide to setting up Moodle on your own Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server:

1. Install Ubuntu Server 8.04
2. #: sudo apt-get update
3. #: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
4. #: sudo apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql apache2 libapache2-mod-security php5-ldap php5-odbc libapache2-mod-php5 php5-gd openssh-server phpmyadmin unzip zip aspell-en curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl php5-xmlrpc clamav-base clamav-freshclam clamav
5. #: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
6. #: cd /var/www
7. #: sudo wget http://download.moodle.org/stable19/moodle-latest-19.tgz
8. #: sudo tar -zxf moodle-latest-19.tgz
9. #: sudo mkdir /var/moodledata
10. #: sudo chown -R www-data.www-data /var/moodledata/
11. #: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
12. Point a browser to http://(yourubuntuhostipaddress)/phpmyadmin and create a database for moodle. Something like “moodle” for a database name. It’s easiest to create a user called moodle and select the option to create a matching database. The new user should have full rights and privileges
for the moodle database.
13. #: Point a browser to http://(yourubuntuhostipaddress)/moodle and follow the install instructions
14. At this point you should have a fully functioning moodle install, congratulations!

While it is possible to omit some of the packages, these packages represent a solid antiviral system for the assignments that get uploaded as well as provide extended feature support for Moodle.

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