My notes on getting a Joomla install going on Ubuntu Server 14.04

Run Tasksel to install unzip and LAMP stack

sudo -s
aptitude install --with-recommends unzip
tasksel

Select LAMP Server and click OK. You will be prompted to enter a password for the ‘root’ user for MySQL. Remember what you entered for later.

Create a database in MySql for Joomla to use

mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE joomlaDb;
CREATE USER joomlauser;
SET PASSWORD FOR joomlauser = PASSWORD(“joomlapassword”);
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON joomlaDb.* TO joomlauser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY ‘joomlapassword’;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

Download and unpack Joomla

wget http://joomlacode.org/gf/download/frsrelease/19393/158832/Joomla_3.3.0-Stable-Full_Package.zip
mkdir /var/www/html/joomla
unzip -q Joomla_3.3.0-Stable-Full_Package.zip -d /var/www/html/joomla
chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/html/joomla/

Fire up a web browser and hit the joomla site you just setup to finalize the configuration

http://theNameOrIPNumberOfTheHostComputer/joomla

Folow the on screen instructions.