# Installing the Discourse development environment on Ubuntu

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**Category:** Developers\
**Tags:** dev-install\
**Created:** [December 10, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-the-discourse-development-environment-on-ubuntu-ubuntu-discourse/248481 "2022-12-10T14:06:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 7:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installing-the-discourse-development-environment-on-ubuntu-ubuntu-discourse/248481/6 "2023-10-06T07:52:24Z")

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> [@wayway\_way](#):
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> Hello, what user does the ubuntu system username refer to?

You don’t need to find it yourself. This command means setting the environment variable $USER to the username. You can execute it directly. That sentence explains what this command does.

> [@honeymoose](#):
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> `sudo -u postgres createuser -s "$USER"`

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