Step 1: Download
Download Ubuntu Desktop from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download and burn it to a disc.
Step 2: Hardware or Virtualization
Find an old junky computer, or attempt this with virtualization (I haven’t been able to virtualize this reliabily so far except in Parallels) and begin the installation process by choosing the first option.
Continue installing after ubuntu live loads by double clicking on the “install” icon.
Step 4: Answer the questions
Answer all the administrative questioning…
Region, Time Zone, Keyboard…
Step 5: Partitioning
For simplicity, I’m going to assume you have an entire hard drive to use, so choose the “Guided-Use Entire Disk” Option.
Step 6: User info
Don’t forget what you answer here… it’s important
Step 7: Get the install going
Let the install run while you get a cup of coffee
Step 8: APT-GET time
Add the following packages to enable Apache, MySQL and PHP by typing:
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server php5-mysql
Restart the apache service by typing:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Step 9: Set up a password for the root MySQL user
sudo mysqladmin -u root password ******
****** = whatever you want your password to be
Step 10: Set up PHPMyAdmin
Type the following commands:
cd /var/www
sudo wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.10.3-english.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzvf phpMyAdmin-2.10.3-english.tar.gz
sudo mv phpMyAdmin-2.10.3-english.tar.gz admin
cd admin
sudo mkdir config
sudo chmod 777 config
Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost/admin/scripts/setup.php
Click Add next to new server and choose localhost, and enter the password for the root account of MySQL which you set up in step 9.
Click Save in the configuration section.
Return to commandline and type:
cd /var/www/admin/config
sudo mv config.inc.php ../
cd ..
sudo rm -R config
Return to web browser and navigate to http://localhost/admin
Step 11: Add a new user and database for Drupal:
Navigate to http://localhost/admin
Choose Privileges
Choose Add a New User
Give it a name and confirm the password
Set Location to Local
Select the option to Create a database of the same name
Click Go
Step 12: Install Drupal
Type the following commands from the commandline:
cd /var/www
sudo wget http://drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-5.1.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzvf drupal-5.1.tar.gz
sudo mv drupal-5.1 drupal
Step 13: Configure for first use
Type the following commands:
cd /var/www/drupal/sites/default
sudo chmod 777 settings.php
Navigate to http://localhost/drupal in web browser
Enter the credentials established in Step 11
Type the following command:
sudo chmod 644 /var/www/drupal/sites/default/settings.php
Hooray! Drupal is running!
