Ubuntu “Breezy” doesn’t have lighttpd (yet), and the only Ubuntu binaries I could find were (a) stale and (b) compiled for x86. Building lighty from source with the standard configure; make; make install dance works fine, but it forgoes APT… and why would you use Ubuntu if you wanted to avoid APT?

So, here’s how to build lighty from source into a Ubuntu package so it’s all nicely wrapped up and maintained for you. The bonus is that this will also give you the Ubuntu-specific /etc/init.d file and a few other Debian-isms.