Installing on Fedora - Pistos/diaspora GitHub Wiki
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These instructions are for the current version of Fedora 15. If you are using a older version you may need to use things like remi repo for up to date packages.
Build Tools
To install build tools, run the following:
su -c 'yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ libxslt libxslt-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel libffi libffi-devel libcurl libcurl-devel openssl-devel sqlite-devel'
Ruby
To install Ruby 1.8.7, run the following command:
su -c "yum install ruby ruby-devel"
MySQL
This installs MySQL, you also need the mysql-devel package:
su -c 'yum install mysql-server mysql-devel'
To start MySQL run
su -c 'service mysqld start'
PostGres
This installs Postgres also if you prefer to use this over MySQL (requires some postgres setup knowledge):
su -c 'yum install postgresql-server postgresql-devel'
To start Postgres see: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/YUM_Installation
ImageMagick
To install ImageMagick, run the following:
su -c 'yum install ImageMagick'
Git
To install Git, run the following:
su -c 'yum install git'
Redis
To install Redis, run the following:
su -c 'yum install redis'
Make a directory for redis logs
su -c 'mkdir /var/log/diaspora'
RubyGems
To install RubyGems, run the following:
su -c 'yum install rubygems'
Rubygems tends to be a little old, you can update it by:
su -c 'gem update --system'
Bundler
To install Bundler, run the following:
su -c 'gem install bundler'