Ubuntu server setup

Rackspace stuff... I have rebuilt my system many times, so these are some useful notes to begin with

First time login and another user creation

$ ssh root@ww.xx.yy.zz
$ sudo adduser username

Some additional steps:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev

Color $PS1

In ~/.bashrc find and uncomment: force_color_prompt=yes

Install Emacs24

http://blog.be-open.net/emacs/ubuntu-emacs24-install/

add-apt-repository ppa:cassou/emacs
apt-get update
apt-get install emacs24 emacs24-el

A piece of my ~/.emacs file

;; Add ~/.elisp directory to my load path.
;; Not needed since .emacs.d is read by default
(add-to-list 'load-path' "~/.emacs.d")

;; Show trailing white spaces
(setq-default show-trailing-whitespace t)
(set-face-background 'trailing-whitespace "#191970")

;; Adds Other Package manager repositories
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("elpa" . "http://tromey.com/elpa/"))
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/"))

Install Go

apt-get install golang

Install Nodejs

I stopped trying to make a web server with node. But these are the steps I used to follow

$ git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git && cd node
$ git checkout -b v0.8.1 v0.8.1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ node -v

# Install npm
$ curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
$ npm -v

# If perl complains:
# perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
#  LANGUAGE = (unset),
#  LC_ALL = (unset),
#  LC_CTYPE = "UTF-8",
#  LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
#   are supported and installed on your system.
# Do:
$ export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
$ export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
$ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
$ locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
# and run it again