by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net
Validated on Ubuntu 8.04.
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql mysql-server php5-gd opensshd/etc/apache2/sites-available/defaultsudo a2enmod rewrite and set AllowOverride all
sudo apachectl -k gracefulmysql -u root -p create database drupal character set utf8 collate utf8_general_ci ;use drupalgrant all on drupal.* to 'xxx'@'localhost' identified by 'YYYYYYYY';