Installing on Ubuntu

Versions

These instructions are for Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10.

Build Tools

To install build tools, run the following (includes the gcc and xml parsing dependencies):

    sudo apt-get install build-essential libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxml2

Ruby

To install Ruby 1.8.7, run the following command:

    sudo apt-get install ruby-full

Please note that you need to have Universe enabled in your /etc/apt/sources.list file to install ruby using apt-get.

MySQL

This installs MySQL, you also need the libmysqlclient-dev and libmysql-ruby packages.

    sudo apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev libmysql-ruby

To start MySQL run

    sudo service mysql start

OpenSSL

You already have OpenSSL installed but you need the libssl-dev and libopenssl-ruby package too:

    sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libopenssl-ruby

libcurl

You need to install the dev headers.

To install them, run the following:

    sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

ImageMagick

To install ImageMagick, run the following:

    sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagick9-dev

If you're on Ubuntu 10.10 use the following instead:

    sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagickwand-dev

Git

To install Git, run the following:

    sudo apt-get install git-core

Redis

To install Redis, run the following:

    sudo apt-get install redis-server

RubyGems

On Ubuntu 10.04, run the following:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maco.m/ruby
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install rubygems

This PPA is maintained by an Ubuntu Developer.

If you are running Ubuntu Server, you might get an error that looks like:

    sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found

If this happens, you must first install python-software-properties, which contains the add-apt-repository command:

    sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

On Ubuntu 10.10, run the following:

    sudo apt-get install rubygems

You may need to install libxsl first: http://nokogiri.org/tutorials/installing_nokogiri.html

Bundler

To install Bundler, run the following:

    sudo gem install bundler 

To get bundle work, you might make a symbolic link:

    sudo ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/bundle /usr/local/bin/bundle

ffi

Note: If you get an error in the next step try to run

    sudo apt-get install libffi-ruby

and try the step again.

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