[TYPO3-install] Need help to set up my V-Server for TYPO3

[Sönke Hartung]

Hello List,

last week I decided to rent an own V-Server. My experience in Linux and
administration of a Server is not very well, but I have no fears of the
Shell and I really want to learn the administration.

The V-Server is the  V-PowerServer A from Strato:
http://www.strato.de/v-power/index.html

The basic data are:

openSUSE Linux 10.1 with Plesk 8.2

also available:
SUSE Linux 9.3 with Plesk 8.0

and also available without Plesk:
openSUSE Linux 10.1
Debian 3.1 Sarge
SUSE Linux 9.3

min. 128MB RAM (dynamic up to 500MB; max. 10 clients per phys. server)

Not really relevant but for information:
10GB HDD (RAID1)
500GB Traffic
Own IP-Address

That are the facts.

I've installed TYPO3 on my given System (openSUSE 10.1 & Plesk 8.2) to
test if its working. I'm trained with Plesk because my old Webspace has
also Plesk for administration. Of course - you might think "This funny
guy wants to learn, how to administrate a server, but make still use of
Plesk". If you think so, you are right ;-) But currently I dont have the
heart to do everything by hand.

After the installation of TYPO3 I checked in the Install-Tool, if the
Image-Processing is work fine - but it doesn't. ImageMagick was missing,
so I started YAST and installed it with a lot of many other needed
tools. After a restart of the Apache everything worked fine - excluding
"Read PDF" and "Read AI".

I checked if my installed Software fits to the System Requirements-List
on typo3.org, but what is necessary for the two functions?

The next question is a bit OT, but how is it possible to get an overview
about the installed Software and its versions, so that I can see what's
installed and what's missing?

Which software should be installed on the server?

Is it necessary to configure IM after the installation?

I hope this Post will find answers in this list, it would help me quite
a lot.

Best regards, Sönke