I recently bought a new VPS which came installed with uBuntu 10.04 64bit LTS by default, I was expecting a 32bit version but then I decided to work on the 64bit version instead.
You might encounter a few problems with installing NginX on uBuntu 10.04 64-bit via apt-get.
- The NginX package on the repositories is old, around version 0.7.5.
- There is no add-apt-repository application installed which allows you to add the NginX repo to the sources.list.
- All the necessary repos might not be available in the sources.list file.
To fix all that, you have to add the necessary repos to sources.list file:
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lucid main deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid universe deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates universe deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates multiverse
If your VPS is in some other country than US, you have to just remove us. from all the URIs.
Now, update apt-get with the latest package lists.
apt-get update
Finally, install python-software-properties package which installs add-apt-repository as a part of it.
apt-get install python-software-properties
After this, follow the instructions to add the NginX repo to your sources.list file.
sudo su - nginx=stable # use nginx=development for latest development version add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/$nginx apt-get update apt-get install nginx
After all this, if you try and install some packages and they give errors, such as unmet dependencies you can use aptitude to fix that:
aptitude purge package-name
and then:
aptitude install package-name
And, if you’re in the process of installing PHP with FPM then you can follow my tutorial to install Nginx + PHP-FPM.
