Wanted: idiot's guide to linux server setup

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Gandalf Parker said:
1b. If I do need to do a full install, will it work given the absence of any X libraries? How do I do it?

Yes. Its more of a headache definetly but it will work.

Well, it installed fine (it's a text mode installer). When I try to run a graphicless server on port 50000 with

dom2 -T -S --port 50000

it says "error loading shared libraries: cannot find libGL.1.so" - that's the OpenGL library, which it shouldn't need in graphicless mode!

Am I doing something wrong? I want it to run a server without needing any graphics. Then I can connect to it and start fiddling about with other options.

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