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Before start installation you should have an access keys in order to download the Magento software

You can create your account on – https://marketplace.magento.com/

Then you will be redirect to the auth services of Adobe. Follow the steps and simply create an account. Or Login with your existing credentials.

Go to My Profile -> Access Keys.

If you already generated access keys you will be able to see the keys in following format.

Public Key : r345118463e4d028092klb7 copy
Private Key : 588d131f60fdb6f8 copy

(These are the sample keys by the way. And not actual keys 😉 )

If you don’t have the keys then you can click on “Create New Access Key” .
Follow the steps and generate new one.

Step 1 – Download Magento via Composer

If you want to install latest version –

$ composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition <install-directory-name>

Where <install-directory-name> is the root directory name in which the Magento will be installed.

If you want to install specific version

$ composer create-project --repository-url=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-enterprise-edition=2.4.5 <install-directory-name>

Once you execute the command in terminal then it will ask you authentication.
Put public Key as a username & private key as a password.

You can see the output as follows.

Step 2 – Install Magento on your local –

Step 2.1 – Create a new database in your mysql.
For example. Here we are creating db with name m2.

Step 2.2 – Create a virtual host

For example. Here we are creating virtual host with name http://m2.local

Step 2.3 – Open the terminal and go to your root directory

$ cd /var/www/html/m2

$ php bin/magento setup:install \
--base-url=http://m2.local \
--db-host=localhost \
--db-name=m2 \
--db-user=root \
--db-password=welcome \
--admin-firstname=M2 \
--admin-lastname=Admin \
--admin-email=test@example.com \
--admin-user=admin \
--admin-password=admin@123 \
--language=en_US \
--currency=INR \
--timezone=Asia/Kolkata

This will show following screen.

If you observe carefully Magento generates here new admin url key.
We can change this key as per our choice.

In this case it is “/admin_3hu9hl”.

Your Magento Installation is done and you can access

Magento backend using – http://m2.local/admin_3hu9hl

You can access frontend using – http://m2.local

And You are done with the installation ! 😉