Installing on Debian

Versions

These instructions are for Debian Lenny 5.0 or Squeeze 6.0.

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 on Debian 6.0, run the following command:

    sudo apt-get install ruby-full

To install Ruby 1.9.2 on Debian 5.0 from source, run the following commands:

    cd /tmp
    wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p136.tar.bz2
    tar xpf ruby-1.9.2-p136.tar.bz2
    cd ruby-1.9.2-p136
    ./configure
    make
    make install

Alternativly if you have it installed you can use "checkinstall" instead of "make install" to install ruby in a more debian friendly way.

MySQL

This installs MySQL, you also need the libmysqlclient-dev and libmysql-ruby packages.

    sudo apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev libmysql-ruby

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

Git

To install Git on Debian 6.0, run the following:

    sudo apt-get install git-core

To install Git 1.7 on Debian 5.0, add Debian Backports repository and install it. Instructions: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/

    sudo apt-get install git-core

Redis

If you're running a 64-bit system, run:

    wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/redis/redis-server_2.2.2-1_amd64.deb

If you're running a 32-bit system, run:

    wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/redis/redis-server_2.2.2-1_i386.deb

Then install the corresponding package

    sudo dpkg -i redis-server_2.2.2-1_amd64.deb

RubyGems

To install RubyGems, run the following:

    sudo apt-get install rubygems

Bundler

To install Bundler, run the following:

    sudo gem install bundler 

To get bundle work, you might make a symbolic link:

    sudo ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/bundle /usr/local/bin/bundle

This is not needed on Debian 5.0 when ruby is installed from source.

ffi

Note: If you get an error in the next step try to run

    sudo apt-get install libffi-ruby

and try the step again.

Congrats! You have all your dependencies installed. Go back to Installing and Running Diaspora.