Installing on Ubuntu
Preparations
You will need to make sure that your username is on the sudo authorized list located at '/etc/sudoers'.
Install everything from APT
If you're going through a proxy, add the following to the ~/.curlrc file:
proxy=host:port proxy-user=username:password
This is for Ubuntu 10.04. There are other steps than just this one:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxml2 ruby-full mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev libmysql-ruby libssl-dev libopenssl-ruby libcurl4-openssl-dev imagemagick libmagickwand-dev git-core redis-server libffi-dev libffi-ruby rubygems libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libreadline5-dev
NodeJS needs to be built from source on 10.04.
git clone git://github.com/ry/node.git cd node ./configure make sudo make install
This is for Ubuntu 10.10. There are other steps than just this one:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxml2 ruby-full mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev libmysql-ruby libssl-dev libopenssl-ruby libcurl4-openssl-dev imagemagick libmagickwand-dev git-core redis-server libffi-dev libffi-ruby rubygems libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libreadline5-dev nodejs
This is for Ubuntu 11.10. There are other steps than just this one:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxml2 ruby-full mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev libmysql-ruby libssl-dev libopenssl-ruby libcurl4-openssl-dev imagemagick libmagickwand-dev git-core redis-server libffi-dev libffi-ruby rubygems libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libreadline-gplv2-dev openjdk-7-jre nodejs
This is for Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10 / 13.04. There are other steps than just this one:
sudo apt-get install build-essential libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxml2 ruby-full mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev libmysql-ruby libssl-dev libopenssl-ruby libcurl4-openssl-dev imagemagick libmagickwand-dev git-core redis-server libffi-dev libffi-ruby rubygems libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libreadline5 openjdk-7-jre nodejs libncurses5-dev openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libyaml-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev libgdbm-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion pkg-config
For all ubuntu releases run this if you are not going to use RVM:
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rubygems/rubygems_1.8.24-1_all.deb -O rubygems.deb && sudo dpkg -i rubygems.deb
Install RVM (optional but currently highly recommended)
You can install Ruby on a clean per user basis via RVM. This is currently recommended to get the latest Rubygems version. It is recommended that you install rvm from source since Ubuntu's version is lagging.
To install rvm from source, execute the following command:
curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --auto
Now read rvm requirements and ensure libyaml-dev is installed. Then install Ruby via RVM:
rvm install 1.9.3-p385 rvm use ruby-1.9.3-p385@global
Start MySQL (optional, depending on your platform)
sudo service mysql start
Install Bundler
To install Bundler, run the following, if you aren't using RVM you need to do it as root (prepend it with sudo):
gem install bundler --no-ri --no-rdoc
To get bundle to work (bundle install step later), you might need to make a symbolic link if you aren't using RVM:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/bundle /usr/local/bin/bundle
Done!
Congrats! You have all your dependencies installed. Go back to Installing and Running Diaspora
Appendix
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
sqlite
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
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 or 12.04 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
ffi
Note: If you get an error in the next step try to run
sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libffi-ruby
and try the step again.
RubyGems
To install RubyGems run
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rubygems/rubygems_1.8.24-1_all.deb -O rubygems.deb && sudo dpkg -i rubygems.deb