====== Most Common Packages ======
Below is the list of most common packages that are usually required by a Linux/Ubuntu server and is best to install it right away.

Use aptitude command line option
<code>aptitude -y install <package_name></code>

  * apache2-utils
  * backuppc
  * bind9
  * cadaver
  * curl
  * dovecot-mysql
  * dovecot-postfix
  * htop
  * iftop
  * imagemagick
  * imagemagick-doc
  * iotop
  * libapache2-svn
  * logtail
  * gcc
  * git
  * make
  * mcrypt
  * nagios-plugins-extra
  * nagios-snmp-plugins
  * nagios3
  * nagios3-doc
  * nmap
  * php-pear
  * php5-curl
  * php5-gd
  * php5-gmp
  * php5-imagick
  * php5-imap
  * php5-ldap
  * php5-mcrypt
  * php5-sqlite
  * postfix-mysql
  * screen
  * sharutils
  * smartmontools
  * sshfs
  * sqlite
  * sysvbanner
  * sysv-rc
  * sysv-rc-conf
  * telnet
  * telnetd
  * unzip
  * zip
  * libgs9
  * libgs9-common
  * traceroute
  * wget
  * build-essential 
  * zlib1g-dev 
  * libyaml-dev 
  * libssl-dev 
  * libgdbm-dev 
  * libreadline-dev 
  * libncurses5-dev 
  * libffi-dev curl 
  * redis-server 
  * checkinstall 
  * libxml2-dev 
  * libxslt-dev 
  * libcurl4-openssl-dev 
  * libicu-dev 
  * logrotate