Template:Installation/Preparation/CentOS: Difference between revisions

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To get Redis >=2.8 in CentOS 6, you need an external repository. As root run:
To get Redis >=2.8 in CentOS 6, you need an external repository. As root run ('''Careful''': This enables additional repositories with all its implications.):


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'''Careful''': This enables additional repositories with all its implications. <!--If you wish, you may disable these repositories to avoid undesired packages and versions to be pulled in. You can do this by setting <code>enabled=0</code> for all repos in the files <tt>/etc/yum.repos.d/remi*.repo</tt> except for the <code>[remi]</code> repository, whose setting you amend with <code>includepkgs=redis</code>.-->
<!-- '''Careful''': This enables additional repositories with all its implications. If you wish, you may disable these repositories to avoid undesired packages and versions to be pulled in. You can do this by setting <code>enabled=0</code> for all repos in the files <tt>/etc/yum.repos.d/remi*.repo</tt> except for the <code>[remi]</code> repository, whose setting you amend with <code>includepkgs=redis</code>.-->


As root run:
As root run:

Revision as of 22:41, 8 September 2016

Install packages

Download and install the latest epel release. As root run:

yum install epel-release

Then as root run:

yum install tar make automake gcc gcc-c++ git net-tools libcurl-devel libxml2-devel libffi-devel libxslt-devel wget redis ImageMagick nodejs

Activate Redis

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

systemctl enable redis
systemctl start redis

Install the database

If you do not have it installed already,


Creating a user for diaspora*

As root run:

adduser diaspora
chmod 755 /home/diaspora
su - diaspora
cd ~