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Installing Drupal using Acquia's Debian/Ubuntu package

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Installing Drupal using Acquia's Debian/Ubuntu package

If you run UNIX or Linux, there is an assumption that you're an experienced system administrator. But more and more people are running Linux on their desktop computers, so I'm really glad that Acquia provides an installer as an Ubuntu package because it really simplifies Drupal on Linux. Now I do have to mention that the version 7 of Drupal hasn't come out in Acquia Drupal yet. But whenever it does, I expect that Acquia will quickly come out with Debian package for that as well. As usual to get it, you would go to acquia.com/downloads. Then underneath the Stack installers for Windows and Mac OS X you would click on the Debian package, and then click Download Now. Then click OK. I've chosen to download this directly into the Ubuntu Software Center. I then click the Install button. You'll be asked for the root password on this computer. Sometime during the installation process, you will be asked to provide a password for the root user. I am going to keep it simple and just put root. Of…

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