Installation instructions for Ubuntu.

INSTALL.md

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+Here is an example that shows how to install socketstream and it's dependencies. Since project is highly experimental it relies on not yet packaged releases of:
+
+* redis
+* node.js
+
+### Ubuntu 10.04 server installation
+
+    # get prerequisites
+    sudo apt-get install build-essential automake git-core curl libssl-dev -y
+
+    # install and run redis
+    cd ~
+    wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.2.4.tar.gz
+    tar -xvzf redis-2.2.4.tar.gz
+    cd redis-2.2.4
+    make
+    sudo make install
+    env redis-server > /tmp/redis.log 2>&1 &
+
+    # install node.js
+    cd ~
+    git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
+    cd node
+    export JOBS=2
+    mkdir -p ~/local/node
+    ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node
+    make
+    make install
+    export PATH=$HOME/local/node/bin:$PATH
+
+    # install npm
+    curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
+
+    # build socketstream
+    cd ~
+    git clone https://github.com/socketstream/socketstream.git
+    cd socketstream
+    npm link
+
+    # test socketstream
+    cd ~
+    socketstream new test
+
+    # run test app
+    cd test
+    sudo env PATH=$PATH socketstream start