Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP. The software was originally developed by Varien, Inc, a US private company headquartered in Culver City, California, with assistance from volunteers. Magento employs the MySQL/MariaDB relational database management system, the PHP programming language, and elements of the Zend Framework.
To install the default LAMP stack in Ubuntu 10.04 and above:
Download and extract the Magento 2 archieve to /var/www/magento.local.