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[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.
[https://www.linode.com/docs/databases/mysql/how-to-install-mysql-on-centos-7 this installation guide] may help. CentOS 7 does not offer MySQL officially.
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=== Creating a user for diaspora* ===
=== Creating a user for diaspora* ===



Revision as of 16:51, 4 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 ~