[support] Installing via Ubuntu apt-get

[Luke]

I am a long time Debian/Ubuntu power user, and am very fond of apt and its 
tools.

That said, if I were you, I would not use the version available from apt. 
Apt is very good at what it does, but handling the details of a CMS for 
you is probably not one of those things.

At least according to my installation here, the current version of D6 
available from apt, is 6.10.  That alone should make you rethink.  (I 
apologize if another version of ubuntu has a more updated package, but 
still).

I would not trust apt to upgrade anything but a very simple drupal site 
anyway, so the advantages of the package manager are rather limited in 
this case.

Drush is something else entirely--apt will not handle module installations 
in drupal for you; drush will, among other useful things.

As for the location of files: Ubuntu/Debian have their own way of placing
files, as do all other distributions.  For example, web files usually go 
somewhere under /var/www.  That makes perfect sense to me, but maybe not 
to someone else.

I just download my own drupal tarballs, and open them under /var/www, or 
in whatever other directory seems appropriate, and go from there.

One thing apt is certain not likely to handle for you, is multiple drupal 
installations on a single system.

Regards,

Luke


  On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Christopher 
Gray 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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