The general skeleton of the procedure: WordPress Installation on Ubuntu with LAMP
- file names are case sensitive – change to desktop directory then do the dir command to make sure you see the wordpress archive file in your desktop folder
- create a new user in your MySQL database. User Management with how to create a new user
- Check over the security of your setup: Installing wordpress securely
- WordPress Codex:Installing WordPress – lots of good details including mysql via command line
- Having problems accessing installation from another machine? – You should not use localhost in your wordpress installation but rather its local IP address to test over the network