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
aptitude -y install <package_name>
- 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
