Install Magento in Ubuntu

To install magento in Ubuntu, first Open the terminal to run the commands.
Navigate to the directory (Inside www folder) where you need to install Magento.

$ cd /var/www 

Download magento 1.7.0.0 files by using the following command:

$ wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.7.0.0/magento-1.7.0.0-alpha1.tar.gz

After the downloading process completes, just decompress the downloaded file:

$ tar -zxvf magento-1.7.0.0-alpha1.tar.gz

Now you can find a new folder “magento”. Just get into it.

$cd magento

Then set permissions for some folders like media, var and app/etc to 777:

$ chmod -R 777 media var
$ chmod 777 app/etc

After changing permissions, just login to mysql.

$ mysql -u username -p

and create a database. Lets say “magento” here.

mysql> create database magento1;

Then open installation wizard in browser, by navigating to the directory where magento was installed. Here:

localhost/magento
(or use your ip)
127.0.0.1/magento

If you face any further problem in installation ,please feel free to contact me.