Installation wiki is a decent place to go for walkthroughs. Here is the link to the nistall of Elgg, and you can link off to get LAMP installed if needed. Here's the sample:

http://www.installationwiki.org/Installing_Elgg
"Now that we have a platform ready for Elgg, let's move on to the most important step of setting up Elgg. Download the latest version of Elgg from its website. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest version of Elgg was Elgg-0.8. Elgg is distributed as a zipped file.

To uncompress under Linux: Move this zipped file to /tmp and uncompress it with the following command:

$ unzip /tmp/elgg-0.8.zip

To uncompress under Windows: Right-click on the ZIP file and select the Extract here option. "
Source(s):
http://www.installationwiki.org/Installing_Elgg

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Installing the open source social networking softare elgg is very similar to installing other free content management and social media software suites.

Because your site is hosted with Bluehost which is powered by Linux and cPanel the server your account is on is well suited for this type of application.

The procedure to install elgg is somewhat complicated for users new to the process but with a little perservierence you should be fine.

The first step to do is simply download the full package available from http://elgg.org/downloads.php

The package is archived in the form of a .zip so you will need to extract the contents before continuing. On Windows simply right click on the elgg1.2.zip file and select "Extract all".

After extracting the software upload the contents of the elgg directory to your webserver via FTP. You will want to use your FTP client to also create a new directory in your elgg folder titled "data" and make sure this folder is read/writable by all. Most FTP clients have an option to set the "CHMOD", make sure the "data" folder you created is set to "777" or read/write by all.

After uploading the elgg package to your webserver the next step is to login to your BlueHost cPanel control panel and create your MySQL database and user. You can do this in the "MySQL Databases" section in cPanel. As shown in my screenshot below simply fill in the field "New Database" with "elgg" and click "Create Database". This will create your database entitled "_elgg" for me it is "scratchy_elgg" because "scratchy" is my username. Make sure you remember what your database is titled.

Screenshot 1

The next step is to return to the "MySQL Databases" section in cPanel and to add a new MySQL user under the "Add New User" field. Simply type in a username and password you want. After doing this return to the "MySQL Databases" page once more and scroll all the way to the bottom to add the user you just created to have access to the database you created. You can see an example of this in the screenshot linked below.

Screenshot 2

Now you're finally ready to finish your elgg installation!

Simply point your webbrowser to the place where you uploaded the elgg documents and follow the instructions below:

Enter your "Database user" we just created in the "Database user" field, as well as your password. Enter the name of the database we just created in the "Elgg database" field and leave the "Database hostname" and "Database table prefix" as normal.

Click "Save" and your Elgg will generate your settings.php file. Simply save this file as "settings.php" using notepad or any other plain text editor and FTP upload it to your webserver in the "engine" directory.

You will also have to do the same thing for the file under "settings.php" only lable this as ".htaccess" and put it in the root folder of your elgg installation.

After performing these steps simply refresh and fill your site name and leave everything else as default. Click "Save" and elgg will be installed!


Source(s):
http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Installation

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I have installed Elgg on godaddy and it was pretty simple to do,Elgg rocks. Anyhow I have found the following tutorials that will give you a step by step walkthrough of Elgg instalation on bluehost.

1.Download the source files from Elgg.org
2. Unzip the tar or zip file that you download
3. Upload contents of your new Elgg folder into your location of choice on your web server
4. Login to your Bluehost Cpanel and click on the MySQL Databases button on the mainpage of your cpanel.
5. Create a new database
6. Now create a new user
7. Now attach the user and the database you just created together
8. Run the Elgg Install script by pointing your browser to the base URL of your website (e.g., http://www.example.com)
9. Fill out necessary fields of passwords and Database connection information
10. Make sure to make your password at least 6 characters
11. Continue with the setup wizard
12. Login to administration with your “news” user and the password that you setup

You should now have a working Elgg Open Source Social Network Platform running on your Bluehost server account. You can now create the social network of your choice .
I sure hope that helps you out, I will use this info to set up Elgg for my clients.You will notice that I have added additional links where you will find forums and other communities that deal with Elgg development, good luck.
Source(s):
http://spreadbluehost.com/
http://spreadbluehost.com/install-elgg-bluehost
http://swik.net/Install-Elgg-on-Bluehost
http://classic.elgg.org/mod/mediawiki/wiki/index.php/Installation_guide
http://groups.google.com/group/elgg-development
http://how2cms.com/how-to-install-elgg-12/

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