Ubuntu 10.10 LAMP Install Guide

# Install Apache2
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

# Install PHP5 and the PHP5-CLI
sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cli
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

# Install MySQL
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
# ... and the php/apache mysql gubbins. Also phpMyAdmin.
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

# Install rewrite module
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

# now configure apache2 - I use a domains directory
mkdir ~/domains

# shove your vhosts in a config file. I'll just edit default;
sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

# Restart apache - shouldn't get any errors
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

# And some useful utils
sudo apt-get install subversion php5-xdebug nautilus-open-terminal

Finally if you want to nab your fonts from your windows partition:

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
cd /media/disk/windows/Fonts
sudo cp *.ttr *.TTF /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/