I am not sure what is going wrong when I am trying to install magento to my local ubuntu machine. I did all the steps mentionsed in the magento wiki. Everything goes well until I reach the point where I am here which is the magento config page. When I try and continue after entering the necessary details like host, database name and user name and submit it comes back to the same page. I checked for everything like db in my phomyadmin panel and it still gets stuck there. What is the possible reason for that.
Thanks
You have to create a database first and then proceed further.
Step 1 - First create a database with name of your choice like magento
Step 2 - Use that database name in the installation form now
Step 3 - Continue
Hope this solves your problem.