Lightpd on Ubuntu December 5th, 2005

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.…