How to install Joomla 2.5.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 Part 1

This is a full article on how to install Joomla on Ubuntu, that means that you can use this guide even if you have a clean installation of Ubuntu, and i will try to keep it as simply as i can.

What you will need in order to install Joomla

First of all you will need a LAMP Server(more information can be found here).

Lets set up our LAMP Server.

1. You have to install a Linux system(you can choose what ever you want. A guide on how to install Ubuntu can be found here).It doesn’t really matter if you choose a desktop or server edition but if you planning to publish your Joomla website i strongly recommend to use a server edition of Ubuntu for example.

2. You will need Apache (more information can be found here)

3. You will need MySQL (more information can be found here)

4. You will need PhP (more information can be found here)

5. And last but not least you will need to download Joomla from official site.

Lets start by installing Lamp: