In this section we are going to download Drupal and put it in the correct location on the file system. Again, if you have installed the Vagrant profile, this step is unnecessary. This is because the profile already downloaded and unpacked the most recent version of Drupal 7. Here we will see the manual version of the process Vagrant does automatically.
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Other Operating Systems
In the last chapter we focused on a Linux setup, but at this point it does not matter which operating system is running. While the commands shown here are on a UNIX shell, the same process is applicable to Windows and OS X. If you are using a database other than a MySQL-like database, you should consult Drupal's documentation to make sure there are no configuration nuances particular to that database.
Drupal is available for download from http://drupal.org/project/drupal. At the time of this writing, Drupal 7.12 is the current release. We will download it and move the contents to the web server...