clean install*****************************

This time I've just noticed that I've had a few too many failed-installs and some programs just act a little too bugy... so I'm going to take this chance to clean house!
I'll also be upgrading to 7.04 over 6.06 that I've been using for awhile successfully now. I would go up to 7.10 but I'm not happy with the dual display setup in 7.10, and my xorg.conf file will still work in 7.04.

NOTE: I have three partitions on my computer: one for /, one for /home(do not format this!!!) and one for swap. This is a great "default" setup, you may want or need more partitions, go nuts.

First back up the following, if not more...
-fonts (any you may have added)
-xorg.conf file (if you have a customized setup, which I do)
-I'm also skipping my local MySQL databases this time around...

pop in your live cd and boot up...
- install 7.04 (do not format the /home dir)

Once you're done installing, boot into your fresh OS...
- restore xorg.conf from old working one (if you need to)
- run software update
- restart (for update and for xorg displays)

- update kernel: I'm going to skip this for now, try to keep my Os install as generic as possible. I'm also going to try to use add/remove in the applications menu as much as possible, over apt-get in terminal, to keep this install as clean as possible (as few mistakes in sudo as possible!)

- install wine (all my old windows appz are still in the menu, they just don't work anymore...)

-> add/remove appz-> search=wine->check->apply->done

- install bluefish

-> add/remove appz-> search "bluefish" ->check->apply->done

- install a good movie file player
add/remove apps->search "vlc"->check->apply

- install k3b (cd writing app)
add/remove apps->search "k3b"->check->apply

- install thunderbird (email app, should find all my old email and settings from my /home directory automatically)
add/remove apps->search "thunderbird"->check->apply

- install gparted
add/remove apps->search "gparted"->check->apply

- install ftp
add/remove apps->search "gftp"->check->apply

- #sudo apt-get update

- install pearpc (http://www.scothiam.com/PearPC_Ubuntu)

- install sheepshaver (http://www.scothiam.com/Sheepshaver_Ubuntu)

- install apache/php/mysql (http://howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu704_p6)
#sudo http://howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu704_p6
#sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-idn php-pear php5-imagick php5-imap php5-json php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-mhash php5-ming php5-mysql php5-ps php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl

Continue installing libc-client without Maildir support? <-- Yes

I then edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default to point towards my "www" directory, which I keep in my /home/ partition. Then restart apache
#sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

More to follow...