[support] Installing via Ubuntu apt-get

[Jim Tarvid]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Dipen <dipench at 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 at bayareadigital.us> wrote:
>
>> 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
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