Posted by mahalie on April 10, 2008 at 12:35am
No fancy development installation here, just quick and dirty command line instructions on installing Drupal 5.7 on an Ubuntu server. Probably a little more approachable for those new who are to Linux, new to development or just want a quick sandbox site.
http://23rdworld.com/2008/04/09/drupal-5x-on-ubuntu-lampdrupal-5x-on-ubu...
I started a discussion instead of a wiki page to get feedback on this article. If it seems useful/appropriate I can copy it to a wiki page.
Thanks!
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Using wget to access contributed projects
Can you point me towards using wget to access contributed modules / projects. I don't want to use a CVS system, but now that I've migrated to Ubuntu, I want to be able to use a command line interface to quickly download and unpackage drupal modules.
I'm new to Ubuntu. I've previously used Tortoise CVS system under Windows, but I don't really need it if I can simply use a command line to download projects / latest module updates.
Thanks!
shalom from wales!
John
shalom from wales!
John
just use the wget command
just use the wget command with the correct package URL like
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/views-5.x-1.6.tar.gz
then extract the files to \drupal\modules
if you like using the command line then maybe take another look at the CVS install howto http://drupal.org/node/320 (im not very familiar with CVS but was able to follow this)
another great tool is the drush package manager: http://drupal.org/project/drush
Wiki's CAN have comments, they just don't (by default)
I noticed mahalie made a point of the fact that she posted a discussion instead of a wiki. Probably the most appropriate content type for this post. However, saying that also implied that a wiki cannot have comments. For some reason comments are turned off by default, but wiki's can have comments, even on groups.drupal.org.
** To enable comments for a wiki, ask a gdo admin (try #drupal in IRC) to turn them on for a particular wiki post. If you ask nicely, and esp if it's your post, they'll likely do it.
Note that a user must be a member of the group to edit a wiki. Not true for comments. Comments can also provide notification of changes.
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