On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Dipen dipench@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

Havent tried installing drupal using ubuntu, but why not give drush a try? Drush comes with lots of cool package manager kind of commands which makes your life as a drupal dev/admin easier. Check out drush at http://drupal.org/project/drush

But would like to know if there are benefits of apt-get way of installing or maintaining drupal installations, though I think drush is much more advance and convenient when it comes to drupal way of doing things.

Cheers

Dipen Chaudhary Founder, QED42 : We build beautiful and scalable web strategies ( www.qed42.com ) Blog: dipenchaudhary.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/dipench

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Christopher Gray < chris@bayareadigital.us> wrote:

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Hi:

I installed Drupal with the Ubuntu command:

apt-get install drupal6

In reviewing Drupal documentation about setting up files, modules, and so forth, many things don't seem to be the same in the Ubuntu installation. For example, the files are not as suggested in /usr/share/drupal6/sites. Does anybody know of a good source of documentation on what the Ubuntu installation does, where it puts things, and what we need to do as administrators and designers in getting started?

Many thanks.

Chris

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I second Dipen's endorsement of Drush. I both an ardent Ubuntu and Drupal

user but I abandoned the apt-get package a long time ago. The current version in "universe" is 6.12-1.1ubuntu1 which means you face a immediate "core" update.

I host a couple dozen Drupal sites and my current scheme is to install Drupal in each users file space. Some users have more than one Drupal site so I used the pattern /home/user/public_html/domain_name/. Then I establish a virtual in "sites-available" pointing back to the user space and add the domain to /etc/bind. I wound up maintaining all of the drupal installations anyway to having unique "core" installations only increased my maintenance.

I am about to move them all to "multisite" and point "sites/domain_name" back to user space preserving user ability to modify their modules, themes and files via ftp. With reluctance, I offer an "old" install-script - http://drupal.ls.net/content/install-script-ubuntu-and-debian as a guide. The versions are out of date.

I expect to complete the move to multisite by May 15th.

Jim

Jens Hoffrichter wrote:

To find out where the package maintainer has put the things (Debian, at least, has a very strict policy on where to put certain types of files), you could always do a:

dpkg -L drupal6

I knew there must be a way like that but wasn't familiar enough to say.

That will list all installed files from that package.

But I have made the experience, too, that running fast moving webapps from a debian package is not the best idea...

Yes, I agree. Either grab the tarball and install manually or use a script similar to drush but even scripts like drush are a kind of package installer. :)