How To Install drupal7 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install drupal7 on Debian 9. drupal7 is fully-featured content management framework

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install drupal7 on Debian 9.

What is drupal7

drupal7 is:

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.

This package contains version 7 of Drupal.

There are three methods to install drupal7 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install drupal7 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install drupal7 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install drupal7

Install drupal7 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install drupal7 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install drupal7

Install drupal7 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install drupal7 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install drupal7

How To Uninstall drupal7 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the drupal7 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove drupal7

Uninstall drupal7 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall drupal7 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove drupal7

Remove drupal7 Configurations and Data

To remove drupal7 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge drupal7

Remove drupal7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove drupal7 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge drupal7

Dependencies

drupal7 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install drupal7 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.