After the new version of Ubuntu (9.10 or Karmic Koala) has been released, I put here a short status on Drupal 6 packages in Ubuntu.

The good new is that there is a package for Drupal 6 in most recent Ubuntu versions:

• Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) has Drupal 6.10
• Karmic Koala (9.10) has Drupal 6.12
• Lucid Lynx (10.04) - not yet released - has Drupal 6.12

Even in the Ubuntu Server 9.04 there is a nice LAMP option with Apache, PHP and MySQL, some more steps are necessary to turn Ubuntu Server 9.04 into a real Drupal development environment. After these steps, you will have a development server, where all Drupal versions, unlimited number of domains and development projects can be set up. Use this tutorial to get a more sophisticated Drupal development environment. And don't forget, there is a simple way in Ubuntu 9.04 for Drupal 6: sudo apt-get install drupal6

Thanks for Markus Heberling and Luigi Gangitano!

With some scripting on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) we can simple generate fully customised Drupal LAMP development servers, as virtual appliance to VMware, or to other virtualization environments like XEN or KVM. In this how-to I'll show how to use this method to have various development or test servers in one hardware box running Ubuntu 8.10 and VMware Server 2.0.

I'm using a machine with Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and VMware Server 2.0, as my host system. VMware Server 2.0 install on Ubuntu 8.10. can be learned here or here. We will need free IP addresses for the virtual machines, so you will need a properly configured DHCP server or a router, as well.

How to install Drupal development environment.

I have started a series of tutorials to describe how to set up a Drupal development environment on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) LAMP server. This LAMP server can be a virtual machine over VMware server.

Session 1: Setting up the LAMP server as a virtual machine
Session 2: Additional components to the LAMP server: webmin, phpMyAdmin, NFS, PHP GD library
Session 3: Configuring the LAMP server: networking, NFS, firewall
Session 4: Drupal install

After a fresh install of Drupal 6.2, create the second user (you have already the user/1), and this user will be the user/3. So user/2 is just missing (page not found). I issued this as a bug report (http://drupal.org/node/259909) and the answer was:
"This is a known issue caused by a quirk of MySQL when dealing with auto-increment fields. Aside from the gap in the sequence it is not actually a problem."

That's fine so far, and I'm just re-publish this story here for others not reading the issue queue, but searching for the user/2

There is already the second maintenance release for Drupal 6, followed in short time. Both releases correct something only in D6. It means, D6 has introduced some new bugs and/or features with security leaks. I hope it's over now ...

I updated the site, and still waiting for the Views for D6.

For Drupal 6 there is the handy image file filter module to insert images into the content.

Update: the evolution of the module is very fast, and the features are also changing. The usability is improving, but some hints below may become misleading in time.

After the setup, you just have to upload the image file to the node as an attachment, set the orientation, and that's all. Look:

IMGFilefilter.png

I decided to upgrade my site content and design to Drupal 6. It runs now without any problem. I'm still waiting for some contributed modules like CCK and Views, but the main features are already alive!