Joomla 2.5.3 on Ubuntu

March 17, 2012 in CMS

How to install Joomla 2.5.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 Part 4

Download and extract Joomla package

Now that our system is ready to host a cms like Joomla we can go to Joomla official site and download joomla. There are more than one packages that you can download in this tutorial i use the one with the ending tar.bz2. you can find that under the “Download other Joomla 2.5.x packages” in this website “http://www.joomla.org/download.html“. when you download this with firefox you can find that file in you local folders /home/(your_account_name)/Downloads/

Ok now we have to copy and extract that file in /var/www/ folder. this folder is the default apache folder. to do that open a terminal and type:

cd /home/(your_account_name)/Downloads/

you should see the downloaded joomla package in this folder if you type:

ls

now we have to copy that file in the apache default folder. so type:

sudo cp (the name of joomla package including the ending tar.bz2) /var/www

if all was ok you can now find this file also in /var/www/ directory

lets check that out. type:

cd /var/www/

ls

you should be able to see the joomla package and also another file index.html.

ok now we will extract this file here by typing:

sudo tar -jxvf (the name of joomla package including the ending tar.bz2)

next thing to do is to delete the default apache page by typing

sudo rm index.html

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