I just have no idea what localwp is, and how to use it. I downloaded “it” on my ubuntu, and ran the .deb package. it supposedly completed, and then… nothing.
i can’t find anywhere on your site about what i’m supposed to do to verify that “it’s” running.
can someone point me to the right docs since i’m clearly not looking in the right place?
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Thank you Nick. the backstory is that i jumped through a few hoops to install wordpress locally (starting w apache, php, phpMyAdmin/mysql etc.), had a few issues, asked a question in the wp forums, and someone said, oh you should just use localwp, so i came here.
my (unoriginal) thought was that i would create my posts locally, before pushing them out to my site.
OS Version is Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS running on an old macbook air.
I decided to run the localwp install on the command line, and i now see that i’m getting several errors:
local depends on libaio1; however:
Package libaio1 is not installed.
local depends on libncurses5; however:
Package libncurses5 is not installed.
local depends on libnss3-tools; however:
Package libnss3-tools is not installed.
I tried individually installing each of them, but get an error that says
Package libaio1 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source