virtual package LAMP

(don't know if this is the right place, sorry if I'm doing something wrong!)

1. Create a LAMP icon on the "Add/Remove..." (It would install apache2, php5-mysql, libapache2-mod-php5, mysql-server and phpmyadmin )

2. After it's installed, make the ~/public_html folder, place a greeting example there, and launch this location (http://localhost/~username)!

3. During install, ask the user if this is a local development base (configure the posts)

3. On this greeting example, the user could be told that Tell the user that the default user/password is root/nothing (maybe allow user to change it), with a link to phpmyadmin.

4. Ask also on the greeting example for the user to edit the ports.conf file to listen only to his own machine, if this is a development machine.

<<SANJAY SODHI>>
Why not just:
apt-get install apache2
apt-get install php5
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql
apt-get install php5-mysql
apt-get install phpmyadmin
printf "Now the installer would map the right alias to the user's ~/www/ or something, and do some clever stuff with sed to automatically configure it as a test machine\n\n"

printf ' If it got this far, you installed successfully! \nYou can now configure your MySQL databases by pointing your browser to http://localhost/phpmyadmin,\n login with the default username "root" and a blank password\n Be sure to create a new user for yourself; the root account should be used extremely sparingly.\n\nYou can place files into your DocumentRoot (~/www/) and view them at http://localhost/ \n\nGood luck!'

Uninstall with:
apt-get remove apache2
apt-get remove php5
apt-get remove libapache2-mod-php5
apt-get remove libapache2-mod-auth-mysql
apt-get remove php5-mysql
apt-get remove phpmyadmin
rm ~/www/

Just requires a few sed's to do the trivial configurations