Template:Installation/Common
Get the source
It's time to download Diaspora! As your diaspora user run:
cd ~
git clone git://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git
cd diaspora
Don't miss the cd diaspora, all coming commands expect to be run from that directory!
Configuration
Copy files
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
cp config/diaspora.yml.example config/diaspora.yml
Bundle
It's time to install the Ruby libraries required by Diaspora:
bundle install
This takes quite a while. You should get a green success message when it's finished, if that's not the case you should seek for help on the mailing list or the IRC channel. You can speed it up a bit adding -jn to the command, where n is the number of CPU cores you have available.
Running the manual gem install command shown in the error message can sometimes show a clearer error message if the bundle command fails.
Database setup
Double check your config/database.yml looks right and run:
bundle exec rake db:create db:schema:load
Start Diaspora
It's time to start Diaspora:
./script/server
Further reading
- Diasporas components explained
- Is there anybody out there? Establish connections with other pods
- Make yourself an admin
- Updating Diaspora
- Getting Started With Contributing