[support] Installing via Ubuntu apt-get

[Earnie Boyd]

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. :)

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