Installing on Debian

Versions

These instructions are for Debian Lenny 5.0 or Squeeze 6.0. You will need to make sure that your username is on the sudo authorized list located at '/etc/sudoers'.

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 libreadline5-dev

CURL

You need to install the dev headers.

To install them, run the following:

    sudo apt-get install curl libcurl4-openssl-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 -t squeeze-backports git-core

Ruby

System Ruby

To install Ruby 1.8.7 on Debian 6.0, run the following command:

    sudo apt-get install ruby-full

To install Ruby 1.8.7 (There are known bugs if you use Ruby 1.9.x, see Bug #998) on Debian 5.0 from source, run the following commands:

    cd /tmp
    wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org//pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.7-p334.tar.gz
    tar xzf ruby-1.8.7-p334.tar.gz
    cd ruby-1.8.7-p334
    ./configure --prefix=/usr
    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.

RVM

Alternativly you can install Ruby on a clean per user basis via RVM.

To install RVM and REE, as your normal user (the one which Diaspora should run under), run

bash < <(curl -s https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)
echo "[[ -s \"$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm\" ]] && source \"$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm\"  # This loads RVM into a shell session." >> ~/.bashrc
bash
rvm install ree
rvm use ree@global

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

ImageMagick

To install ImageMagick, run the following:

    sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagick9-dev

Redis

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

    wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/redis/redis-server_2.2.5-1_amd64.deb

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

    wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/redis/redis-server_2.2.5-1_i386.deb

Then install the corresponding package

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

RubyGems

Not needed for a RVM installation. To install RubyGems, run the following:

    sudo apt-get install rubygems

Bundler

To install Bundler, run the following, skip the sudo for a RVM installation:

    sudo gem install bundler 

To get bundle work with the system Ruby, 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 libffi-dev

and try the step again.

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