tlarkin
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For the longest time I never really had a favorite flavor of Linux until this afternoon. I have tried many and I have always found flaws in them in some way or another that never put one distro over the other.
Oh a whim I downloaded an ISO of Ubuntu 9.01 or whatever the newest version is. Installed it via virtual box as a VM. I was doing manual installs of mysql, apache2, and so forth with the package manager via the command line (apt).
After manually trying to get drupal to freaking install I was missing one step, but could not figure out it. Then I found that drupal 6 has a repository via apt. Installed it, and installed drush, which is a BASH command line interface for your drupal site.
what does this mean?
It means that I can now automate drupal installs via shell scripts. So, all my web developer buddies have to do, is tell me what they want packaged, and I can write a script, then they just have to upload the theme or configuration to ftp and I can grab it and toss it where it needs to go via wget.
Oh a whim I downloaded an ISO of Ubuntu 9.01 or whatever the newest version is. Installed it via virtual box as a VM. I was doing manual installs of mysql, apache2, and so forth with the package manager via the command line (apt).
After manually trying to get drupal to freaking install I was missing one step, but could not figure out it. Then I found that drupal 6 has a repository via apt. Installed it, and installed drush, which is a BASH command line interface for your drupal site.
what does this mean?
It means that I can now automate drupal installs via shell scripts. So, all my web developer buddies have to do, is tell me what they want packaged, and I can write a script, then they just have to upload the theme or configuration to ftp and I can grab it and toss it where it needs to go via wget.
