This is a list of commands to install WordPress on Ubuntu.
Install PHP5 and MySQL server:
$ sudo apt-get install php5-cli
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-client-core-5.5
$ sudo apt-get install apache2
$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
$ sudo apt-get install php5-mysql
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Download the latest WordPress package:
$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
$ tar xvfz latest.tar.gz
$ ls wordpress
Edit wp-config.php to set the database name, database user name, database password, database host:
Create a database, for example, using the mysql command line interface:
$ mysql -u adminusername -p
Enter password: your-admin-user-password
mysql > create database databasename;
mysql > grant all privileges on databasename.* to "wordpressusername"@"hostname" identified by "password"
mysql > flush privileges;
mysql > exit
Copy the wordpress package to the web site:
$ mkdir /var/www/blog
$ cp -Rf wordpress /var/www/blog/
Use any browser to browse http://localhost/blog/:
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