This installation assumes that you have PHP, apache2, MySql, composer installed already.
1. Install via composer:
composer create-project --repository=https://repo.magento.com/ magento/project-community-edition <install-directory-name>
2. Set file permissions
cd <install-directory-name>
sudo find var generated vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type f -exec chmod g+w {} +
sudo find var generated vendor pub/static pub/media app/etc -type d -exec chmod g+ws {} +
sudo chown -R :www-data . // Ubuntu
sudo chmod u+x bin/magento
3. Create MySql database say: m2
4. Create new virtual host using script: vh
vh new mage2 -p ~/<install-directory-name>
5. Run installation command
php bin/magento setup:install \ --base-url="http://mage2.loc/" \ --db-host="localhost" \ --db-name="m2" \ --db-user="root" \ --db-password="root" \ --admin-firstname="admin" \ --admin-lastname="admin" \ --admin-email="admin@example.com" \ --admin-user="admin" \ --admin-password="admin123" \ --language="en_US" \ --currency="USD" \ --timezone="America/Chicago" \ --use-rewrites="1" \ --backend-frontname="admin"
6. Browse to http://mage2.loc
7. Install sample data
php bin/magento sampledata:deploy