Installing ERPNext on Ubuntu

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sudo apt-get install vim

sudo apt-get install git

sudo apt-get install apache2

sudo apt-get install mysql-server
--> root password: erpnext

sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev

sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install pip
sudo pip install pytz
sudo pip install --upgrade python-dateutil
sudo pip install jinja2
sudo pip install markdown2
sudo pip install termcolor

cd /var/www
sudo git clone git://github.com/webnotes/erpnext.git

cd /var/www/erpnext
sudo python install_erpnext.py
--> MySQL Root user's Password: erpnext
--> New ERPNext Database Name: erpnext
--> New ERPNext Database's Password: erpnext

cd /var/www
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data erpnext

# to enable rewrite engine for apache
sudo a2enmod rewrite

sudo vim /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
# content of httpd.conf
SetEnv PYTHON_EGG_CACHE /var/tmp

Listen 8080
<VirtualHost *:8080>
    ServerName *
    DocumentRoot /var/www/erpnext/public/
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .xml
    Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule \.py - [F]
    ## uncomment below lines if required
    #Order allow,deny
    #Allow from all
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi
</VirtualHost>

Start Mozilla Firefox and go to: http://localhost:8080