Install guide

These instructions will guide you through the process of setting up a reddit clone for the first time. We also have an automated install script for Ubuntu Linux.

Prerequisites

Before continuing with this guide, make sure you have all of reddit's many dependencies installed. See one of the following guides for details.

• Basic list of dependencies
• Debian Dependencies
• Fedora Dependencies
• Mac OS X Dependencies

This guide will assume that you are installing reddit as user reddit in the directory /home/reddit. If this is not the case, modify the examples accordingly.

Get the code

Clone the git repository available here on github.

reddit:~$ git clone git://github.com/reddit/reddit.git

Once this is done, you'll need to install the python module dependencies.

$ cd reddit/r2
$ sudo python setup.py develop
$ make

PostgreSQL

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RabbitMQ

memcached

Cron Jobs

Test it out