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Installing Movable Type on Debian Server

Movable Type
Movable Type is a widely-used proprietary weblog publishing system developed by California-based Six Apart. Movable Type also supports most popular weblogging features, including user accounts, comments, categories, and themes, and is extensible through a large library of third-party plug-ins. Movable Type is free of charge for personal blogs with unlimited authors and blogs; paid support and commercial licenses, which allow more authors and weblogs on a single installation of the software, are also available. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_Type.
Introduction
This tutorial reviews how to install Movable Type (MT) on your local Debian server. This tutorial does NOT offer easy Movable Type installation instructions. This guide was created because the official Movable Type installation guide are not written for beginner users like me . Hopefully these guide are easier to understand for us normal people.
Gud lak! I hope this helps save you time.
Requirements
Movable Type requires the following:

An account on a webserver that allows you to run custom CGI scripts.
Perl installed on your server, version 5.004_04 or greater. Perl version 5.6 or higher is highly recommended.
BerkeleyDB or, preferably, a SQL-based database …

WordPress on Debian Linux

This tutorial is how to install WordPress on Debian Linux. Installing WordPress on Debian? What for? Are there many easy ways to install WordPress on our server (Web hosting)? Eventually, We don’t need to know what distro that our server use or what operating system is. You right.
I have a “special” condition here. I need to install WordPress on my own Debian server for testing purpose. If You like me, play around with WordPress as a developer (perhaps you create your own theme or plugin), you should have your own server in your local PC on LAN.
You can use your own server to test your own WordPress theme or plugin before you release it. You can upload and test your theme or plugin directly on your remote server of course, but if you have a little problem with Internet connection (just like me), it is so hard way
These are my little steps to built my WordPress theme or plugin:

Built on my local PC
Upload to my local server
Testing my work and make sure works propertly
Upload to my remote server
Testing …