update seeings I’m getting so many hits for Ubuntu 9.04 LAMP, I’ll pull out the LAMP-specific bits. Hopefully I don’t miss anything out. If you’re after windows fonts etc, you probably want the original version of this post – so scroll down a bit.
# Install Apache2
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
# Install PHP5 [...]