This is typically how Magento is installed, especially if you want to familiarize yourself with Magento and see how they setup categories and products. mkdir SUBDIRECTORY cd SUBDIRECTORY wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.3.2.3/magento-1.3.2.3.tar.gz" href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.3.2.3/magento-1.3.2.3.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.3.2.3/magento-1.3.2.3.tar.gz wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.2.0/magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz" href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.2.0/magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.2.0/magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz tar -zxvf magento-1.3.2.3.tar.gz tar -zxvf magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz mv magento-sample-data-1.2.0/media/* magento/media/ mv magento-sample-data-1.2.0/magento_sample_data_for_1.2.0.sql magento/data.sql mv magento/* magento/.htaccess . chmod o+w var var/.htaccess app/etc chmod -R o+w media mysql -h DBHOST -u DBUSER -pDBPASS DBNAME < data.sql ./pear mage-setup . ./pear install magento-core/Mage_All_Latest-stable rm -rf downloader/pearlib/cache/* downloader/pearlib/download/* rm -rf magento/ magento-sample-data-1.2.0/ rm -rf magento-1.3.2.3.tar.gz magento-sample-data-1.2.0.tar.gz data.sql

For this install, there are five things you will need to know before you copy and paste the SSH commands and run the install.

1. Subdirectory name where Magento will be installed
   
   
2. The database host name, localhost works for most
   
   
3. The name of the database that Magento will use
   
   
4. The username that has privileges to use the database
   
   
5. The password for that user