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Restart PostgreSQL.
Restart PostgreSQL.
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     CentOS 6 ships with an unsupported MySQL version. Thus, we need to include the [https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/yum/ MySQL yum repo] to get the latest stable MySQL version. To do so, run as root:
     CentOS 6 ships with an unsupported MySQL version. Thus, we need to include the [https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/yum/ MySQL yum repo] to get the latest stable MySQL version. To do so, run as root ('''Careful''': This enables additional repositories with all its implications.):
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rpm -Uvh https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql57-community-release-el6-8.noarch.rpm
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'''Careful''': This enables additional repositories. 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/mysql-community*.repo</tt>.
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Install required packages as root and activate the server:
Install required packages as root and activate the server:

Revision as of 22:45, 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 ~