I was looking for ways to get Apache 2.2 installed on my Ubuntu partition. I can only find the below mentioned way of doing it. But I"d rather want to know how to download the binaries and extract them.
Why not just use the Synaptic Package Manager (it's under System | Administration) or apt-get to install the Apache2 package? According to the version info, that package is Apache HTTPD 2.2
apt-get will do the extraction. ".deb" packages are tarballs with some context info and install scripts included, so apt-get extracts the binaries and runs the scripts.
synaptic is apt-get enhanced with the ability to download the deb package and its dependencies from Internet repositories. There are also a couple of other utilities of this type, although I haven't used Ubuntu recently enough to remember them all.
USUALLY these days, you can just apt-get the apache2 server package plus apache modules required for your specific needs (such as mod_php). Not like the Good Old Days when customizing Apache virtually demanded building your own from source.
Of course if you really WANT to download/compile/install, I've got a friend that swears that Gentoo is the way to go for everything!
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