Magento 2 Cannot install sample data without blank pages or permission errors

Question

I am on day 3 of trying to successfully install and use Magento 2 sample data.

The Magento installation goes fine but the trouble is all after installing the sample data.

This is what I'm doing:

1. Set the swap:
 /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
 /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
 /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1
 sudo composer update
2. Set Developer Mode:
 sudo php bin/magento deploy:mode:set developer
3. Download Sample Data:
 sudo php bin/magento sampledata:deploy
4. Install Sample Data
After this I always get a blank page...
So I do this:
 sudo php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
 sudo php bin/magento setup:upgrade
 sudo php bin/magento setup:di:compile
 sudo php bin/magento cache:clean

This I get lots of permission errors etc...

So I give up and start again.

Can anyone help on how to successfully do this?

Answer 1

Magento 2 installation steps

First of all download Magento2 with sample data from https://www.magentocommerce.com/download

Then to install follow the steps in given links (because we are downloading zip so g to localhost lnk & directly start to install from steps 3 w.r.t. below link)

http://astrio.net/blog/magento-2-installation-local-server/

OR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd_wvYj_WzQ

Now we know that there are some problems after installation for that you can check my answer in below given link

A fresh install magento2.1, error 404 not found

If you still find some other kind of error google it or let me know may be i could help you.

For more error you can refer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLJhunAAcHI

• user159500: I am using DigitalOcean where I use a script that installs Magento without the Sample data...I need instuctions for installing the sample data on an already installed instance of Magento 2
• Steve Johnson: You're missing the magento setup:upgrade at the end. Here is documentation on how to install sample data after Magento has already been installed.