Drupal on Ubuntu
"Drupal is a dynamic web site platform which allows an individual or community of users to publish, manage and organize a variety of content, Drupal integrates many popular features of content management systems, weblogs, collaborative tools and discussion-based community software into one easy-to-use package."More information about is available at DrupalCanonical does not provide updates for drupal5. Some updates may be provided by the Ubuntu community."
Hence it's better to manually install the latest drupal , from the source , the steps are :
Install the LAMP stack packages
$ sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-mysql php5-gd libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server
Set a mysql-root password (not the same as a root password, but a password for mysql)
$ mysql -u root
mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('yourpassword');
Get drupal
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-6.9.tar.gz
tar xvzf drupal-6.9.tar.gz
sudo mkdir /var/www/drupal
sudo mv drupal-6.9/* drupal-6.9/.htaccess /var/www/drupal
Create a files subdirectory in your drupal default site installation directory.
sudo mkdir /var/www/drupal/sites/default/files
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/drupal/sites/default/files
create the initial configuration file for the default site
sudo cp /var/www/drupal/sites/default/default.settings.php /var/www/drupal/sites/default/settings.php
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/drupal/sites/default/settings.php
Create user for Drupal
mysqladmin -u root -p create drupal
Grant permissions
mysql -u root -p
mysql> GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES, LOCK TABLES ON drupal.* TO 'drupaluser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'drupalpass';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
mysql> \q
Restart apache
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Now , you can go to your Drupla page on , http://localhost/drupal
For more info and support do visit :Ubuntu help for Drupal

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