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Hey there,
I tried to install CMSMS on a fresh minimal Debian 9 installation.

It doesn't matter if I try the single file or the expanded installer. Result is the same:
Well. thats not too much info to work with. I think, if something was wrong with my apache2, php7 or mariaDB installation, the install script would at least tell me so.

Directory was empty, exept for the zip files and the files that came out of them.

PHP is working, at least, i can get phpinfo. But I have no Idea how to append it here, because the forum rejects html files (or the same file renamed as txt)

I checked the code. The message is valid, and correct.

There are multiple different ways of specifying the 'destination' directory on installation:

a: via the URL on the first request
b: via a config file
c: via the selector/input field in the first page.

The code is merely checking that the value it found for the destination directory is a: a directory, and b: is writable by the application.