Installing Drupal

I have moved an old site to a new site lately. All the data and links seem to be working fine. However, if I view the source while the web page is displayed. I see the following lines inside the source: (from the web browser, click on View then Source...)

i am very new to all of this. i have only html and graphic design experience, but i've inherited a drupal board and am trying to understand it. i was told i should install it on my computer and play around with it locally before i attempt to make any changes to the functional site.

however, i am having quite a bit of difficulty understanding how to even install it

i've been reading this: http://drupal.org/node/257 on installing it on my computer and it mentions things like:

1. DOWNLOAD DRUPAL

You can obtain the latest Drupal release from http://drupal.org/.
Download the current tar.gz format and extract the files:

$ wget http://drupal.org/drupal/drupal-x.x.x.tgz
$ tar -zxvf drupal-x.x.x.tgz

This will create a new directory drupal-x.x.x/ containing all
Drupal files and directories. Move the contents of that directory
into a directory within your web server's document root or your
public HTML directory:

$ mv drupal-x.x.x/* drupal-x.x.x/.htaccess /var/www/html

even with the first instruction, i'm not understanding it. i do not see any files within the drupal-4.4.2.tgz file that i downloaded, named: "$ wget http://drupal.org/drupal/drupal-x.x.x.tgz"

i know how to move something to my web server's directory root, but when they say that, then immeadiately after just show this: $ mv drupal-x.x.x/* drupal-x.x.x/.htaccess /var/www/html... i have no clue what that means

my problem isn´t really a installation problem, the site is hosted at cascadehosting.com, who did a really good job in installing the system.

i ´m running the site in german and want the names of the days of the week and the names of the months to appear in german. how can i manage to?

i´ve seen some postings but none i really understand
kip

Hello everyone.

I've just installed 4.4.2 on my localhost running WAMP. I've successfully made it to the initial set-up page, however, if I click a link to Create a New User, I simply get a list of the files in the /drupal directory on the server. I notice that when I hover over the link, in the Firefox status bar, the URL is http://localhost/drupal/?q=user/register . I'm positive that "index.php" should be in there, correct?

Anyone know of install instuctions or a document outlining filestore2?
All I can find is the module download (which contains no helpful info).
I would like to know what the patch is doing and how the module works.
Any links to suggest?

At the suggestion of some here, I have installed the cvs version of Drupal. I have gotten almost everything set up the way I need it (I had to update some modules and create a new one) except for one thing. I can't go live without it. PLEASE help me.

I've set up drupal in a subdirectory but I need the urls to point to the root. I tried the following the instructions and suggestions offered here but I haven't been successful. The following steps are what I thought was supposed to work.