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=== Install packages ===

Download and install the latest rpm from http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/repoview/epel-release.html
at the time of this article, the latest was 7.2 and it was as root via

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yum install epel-release
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Then as root run:

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yum install tar make automake gcc gcc-c++ git net-tools libcurl-devel libxml2-devel libffi-devel libxslt-devel wget redis ImageMagick nodejs {{#switch: {{#var:DB}}|mariadb=mariadb-devel|postgres=postgresql-devel}}
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=== Activate Redis ===

CentOS does not enable and start services automatically, so you need to do this manually. As root run:

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chkconfig --level 3 redis on
service redis start
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systemctl start redis
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=== Install the database ===

If you do not have it installed already, {{#switch: {{#var:DB}}
| mysql=
[https://www.linode.com/docs/databases/mysql/how-to-install-mysql-on-centos-7 this installation guide] may help. CentOS does not offer MySQL officially.
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run as root:
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yum install postgresql-server postgresql-contrib
postgresql-setup initdb
systemctl enable postgresql
systemctl start postgresql
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| mariadb=
[https://mariadb.com/blog/installing-mariadb-10-centos-7-rhel-7 follow this guide].
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=== Creating a user for diaspora* ===

As root run:
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adduser diaspora
chmod 755 /home/diaspora
su - diaspora
cd ~
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