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Chapter 1
The second command will install PEAR, a PHP package manager and a PHP
memcached adapter.
Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory caching
system; this is an optional caching system for Magento.
The third command installs and sets up the php5 module for Apache.
We can finally test that our PHP installation is working by running the
following command:
$ php -v
Installing MySQL
MySQL is a popular choice of database for many web applications, and Magento is
no exception. We will need to install and set up MySQL as part of development stack
using the following command:
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client -y
During installation, we will be asked to enter a root password; use magento2013.
Once the installer has finished, we should have a mysql service instance running
in the background. We can test it by trying to connect to the mysql server using the
following command:
$ sudo mysql -uroot -pmagento2013
If everything has been installed correctly, we should see the following mysql
server prompt:
mysql>
At this point, we have a fully functional LAMP environment that can be used not
only for developing and working on Magento websites but also for any other kind
of PHP development.
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