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Installing on Fedora

joshlangner edited this page Sep 22, 2011 · 27 revisions

Versions

These instructions are for the current version of Fedora.

Build Tools

To install build tools, run the following:

    su -c 'yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ libxslt libxslt-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel libffi libffi-devel libcurl libcurl-devel'

Ruby

To install Ruby 1.8.7, run the following command:

    su -c "yum install ruby ruby-devel"

MySQL

This installs MySQL, you also need the mysql-devel package:

    su -c 'yum install mysql-server mysql-devel'

To start MySQL run

    su -c 'service mysqld start'

ImageMagick

To install ImageMagick, run the following:

    su -c 'yum install ImageMagick'

Git

To install Git, run the following:

    su -c 'yum install git'

Redis

To install Redis, follow the instructions at http://redis.io/download to determine the right version, and then run the following:

    wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.2.14.tar.gz
    tar xzf redis-2.2.14.tar.gz
    cd redis-2.2.14
    make

Note: You may need to install 'wget' first by running the following:

    su -c 'yum install wget'

RubyGems

To install RubyGems, run the following:

    su -c 'yum install rubygems'

Bundler

To install Bundler, run the following:

    su -c  'gem install bundler'

Congrats! You have all your dependencies installed. Go back to Installing and Running Diaspora.

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