Similar to this article from Azure themselves: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/common-tasks/install-lamp-stack/

I am trying to install PHP5 on Ubuntu 12.0.4 virtual machine. However, it fails installing the ssl-cert.

$ sudo apt-get install php5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
php5 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up ssl-cert (1.0.28) ...
Could not create certificate. Openssl output was:
Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
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writing new private key to '/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key'
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problems making Certificate Request
140320238503584:error:0D07A097:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_mbstring_ncopy:string too long:a_mbstr.c:154:maxsize=64
dpkg: error processing ssl-cert (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ssl-cert
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any tips appreciated.