Installing Drupal

I did a minimal Drupal installation and it doesn't have the article content type. I figured I would create it from scratch but I'm not entirely sure what the settings are and couldn't find that information anywhere. Anybody know at least the basics? Or screenshots of the fields/settings?

Thanks.  

I am installing Drupal 7.56 in my local environment. It encountered an error, but however am allowed to move forward for the installation; but am not able to configure my site entering user root/admin details like username, password, email, etc it gave me link 1 error.

After a while, tried to delete the database and files and restructured the host name in local; on second attempt it gave me the link 2 error.

I am trying to move a Drupal site from www.example.com to www.example2.com/subdir, i.e. changing the host and installing in a subdirectory of the new host.  I have moved the database to example2 using mysqldump and the files using rsync.  I haven't changed anything in the database or files (e.g.

Both the zip and the tar.gz files are corrupt and will not expand properly

So i recently got a web host that uses CPanel and i use both the manual way and the auto-installer from CPanel, once it installs on a complete fresh install i get this error "The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later." i then look in the CPanel logs and get these messages and was wondering if this has anything to do with not being able to see my fresh install of Drupal 8.

After trying to resolve conflicts between multiple copies of mysql

1. one from apt-get (removed with apt-get)
2. one from mysql.org (not sure how to uninstall, but no longer working after removing #1 (get ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2))
3. one with ampps stack bundle

The one that seems to be running is #3 .  The Drupal install seems to be looking for mysql in the old location (/usr/bin) because it also gets the ERROR 2002 (see below).