What you need for this book
This How-to is focused on Unix systems with a primary Linux focus. The LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack of services is often modified to LAPP (Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP). This type of server makes up a large majority of hobbyist usage and several Enterprise-level systems. We highly recommend you to have a virtual machine or development system running a recent copy of Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or a variant such as CentOS or Scientific Linux.
You will also need a copy of PostgreSQL. Though most Linux distributions include PostgreSQL packages, they are often one or more versions behind. So we recommend going to the PostgreSQL website, and downloading a copy that matches the architecture you have ...
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