Setting up Voyage – installing packages

You probably noticed we used the apt-get command to install Nano, well we can install a huge number of packages and we can also use apt-get to uninstall packages…

apt-get install packagename
apt-get remove packagename

Fairly self explanatory really!

Robot Yacht needs quite a few additional packages which we will install now and set up later… These first three will be used to set up a web-server that will host information over Robot Yacht’s wireless network and at a later stage over the internet.

apt-get install apache2
apt-get install php5
apt-get install mysql-lite

Apache is the standard in web servers – nearly every website on the internet is hosted using apache. PHP5 is a scripting language very similar to perl, but built from the ground up for web use. MySQL-Lite is a version of MySQL Database that stores its data in flat files – this will be very handy for storing data from instruments such as a GPS.