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I installed an Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS Virtual MAchine on Azure.

I want to set it up as a WebServer with email capabilities, too.

How can I install software packages through the command line? Is there a list of available packages?

Thanks, Yiannis

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In this case the apt-get and apt-cache commands will be your friends.

First of all, to be sure to have an up-to-date list of software available in the Ubuntu repositories configured on your server, you will to run the sudo apt-get update command.

If you don't know the exact name of a package, you will have to search for it. For instance, searching for all instance of apache in the list of software, you will do apt-cache search apache.

When you have identified the name of the package(s) you need, you will do sudo apt-get install <package name>.

The apt-get command retrieve the name of all the dependent packages and will install them along with the package you have requested.

There are alternative to apt-get.
The one I like, is tasksel. Install it by typing sudo apt-get tasksel.

tasksel can be used to install all the packages related to a given functionality. Not only the dependencies, but also nice-to-have tools to create for instance a LAMP server and so on.

sudo tasksel install lamp-server
sudo tasksel install mail-server

will install all the required packages that will create a full-featured mail and LAMP server.

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