With the new version of WordPress 4.0 Beta2 available to download and test, here’s how to use wp-cli to download and configure it all from the Terminal, you need to have wp-cli and MySQL installed as well as the rest of a working AMP stack.
Launch Terminal and [optionally] create and change directory into your desired webroot.
Replace the placeholders in square brackets[] with your values and remove the square brackets.
Replace the placeholders in double quotes “” with your values and either keep or remove the double quotes.
Create a new blank database
mysql -u [USERNAME] -p[PASSWORD] -e "create database [DATABASE_NAME];"
Download the latest WordPress 4
wp core download --version=4.0-beta2
Create a Database wp-config.php file
wp core config --dbname="DBNAME" --dbuser="DBUSER" --dbpass="DBPASSWORD"
Finish the Install
wp core install --url="http://BLOG_URL" --title="BLOG_NAME" --admin_user="ADMIN_USER" --admin_password="PASSWORD" --admin_email="ADMIN_EMAIL"
Add Demo Content Plugin
wp plugin install wp-example-content
It may be useful to test the version with some content already populated, there a few plugins that do this, in the one above you can add a bunch of posts and pages.