How To Install drupal7 on Debian 9
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:
- debconf
- apache2
- php
- php-mysql
- php-gd
- php-xml
- default-mta
- wwwconfig-common
- default-mysql-client
- dbconfig-common
- curl
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
.