With installing Drupal through you will get an older version of Drupal somewhere in your system. You will also get troubles with the files/directories modes. The simplest way to avoid such troubles - at least for me - to use mod_userdir module provided by Apache. You will have a "public_html" directory in your home directory, where you can put your Drupal directory.
Doing so, install Apache, PHP and MySQL, phpMyAdmin is also useful to create and manage your database. Type into your terminal:
Code:
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server phpmyadmin
To activate mod_userdir:
Code:
sudo a2enmod userdir
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload
You might have to change that file:
Code:
sudo geany /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf
It should look like:
Code:
<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
UserDir /home/*/public_html
UserDir disabled root
</IfModule>
Then create the directory "public_html" in your home directory. Download and unzip the current Drupal version into that directory.
Now you have to create your Drupal database. Don't use your MySQL root, create a new user at first. Open phpMyAdmin with that link:
http://localhost/phpmyadminLogin, go to users and create a new one. And check also to create an new database for that user. It will be your Drupal database. Then, your link to install Drupal should be something like that:
http://localhost/~username/drupal/install.phpFollowing the instructions, you will get through the installation script..
This is just a rough description as I am remebering now.