Installation
Come along with all the required information to proceed with full installation in local environments.
Latest 1.9.x release
The software is obtained from https://magento.com/tech-resources/download.
Latest realease version 1.9.3.2. Added Feb 7, 2017. Includes patches: SUPEE-5344, SUPEE-5994, SUPEE-6237, SUPEE-6285, SUPEE-6482, SUPEE-6788, SUPEE-7616, SUPEE-7405, SUPEE-7405 v1.1, SUPEE-8788, SUPEE-9652.
Requirements
XAMP, LAMP or LNMP stack (for XAMPP xampp-win32-5.6.30-0-VC11-installer.exe)
Docker
Vagrant file
Bitnami
Sample Data 1.x. Added Oct 11 2016 for Magento 1.9.2.4 and later (magento-sample-data-1.9.2.4-2016-10-11-07-20-15.zip)
Magento 1.9.3.2 Added Feb 7 2017 (magento-1.9.3.2-2017-02-07-01-49-34.zip). It is not required if the downloader is used because it downloads and installs Magento by itself
Magento 1.9.x downloader 1.x Added Nov 24 2014 (magento-downloader-1.9.1.0-2015-02-09-10-17-59.zip)
For full system requirements see http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/m1x/system-requirements.html
For Development Environment
XAMP, LAMP or LNMP stack
Using any operating system is recommended to use XAMPP: https://www.apachefriends.org/
XAMPP understands for Apache, MariaDB, PHP and Perl that is best suitable for development environments.
XAMPP v5.6.30 (PHP 5.6.30)
XAMPP now supports PHP 7.1 for Magento 2 new features
XAMPP Docker Container
See https://www.apachefriends.org/xampp-docker-container.html
See Bitnami http://blog.bitnami.com/2016/06/introducing-bitnami-development.html