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As a favour to a colleague, I recently downloaded and installed the web content management system eZ Publish (the community version) on my Ubuntu 11.04 system. Conveniently, Falko Timme had already documented the process for Ubuntu 7.10 here and, with only a few tweaks to Falko's writeup, the latest version of eZ Publish went in nicely.

Before you get started, you should probably check the official requirements page here to verify that you seem to have all of the essential software installed. And as for those minor tweaks, here you go:

• Since you need to use pear to install the eZ Components PHP library, make sure you:
  

  $ sudo apt-get install php-pear
  

  before you get to that step in the installation instructions.

• For brevity, Falko recommends you rename the directory that is unloaded under /var/www with a command similar to:
  

  $ cd /var/www
  $ sudo mv ezpublish_community_project-2011.5-with_ezc ezc
  

  Personally, I prefer to use symlinks to get the same effect:

  $ sudo ln -s ezpublish_community_project-2011.5-with_ezc ezc
  

  Symlinks make it easier to wipe out and re-install the entire download without constantly messing with renaming but, obviously, either technique will work.

• Finally, Falko's instructions don't appear to show the option of selecting PostgreSQL as the underlying database, but it's certainly mentioned in the newer installation process.

Other than the above, the entire process just plain worked. Always a good thing. I suspect there will be more eZ Publish blog posts in the near future. Stay tuned.