1 ## How to install GNU social
3 There are two ways to install GNU social -- from git, or from a snapshot.
7 0. Make sure you have all the things you need installed:
9 sudo locale-gen en_US en_US.UTF-8
10 sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
11 sudo apt-get update -q
12 sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
13 sudo apt-get install -y pound varnish php5 rsync htop emacs23-nox apache2 php5-mysql dtrx mysql-server exim4
19 2. Make a directory for your installation and let the webserver write to it.
22 chown www-data:www-data www/mattl.io
24 3. Check out GNU social into your directory.
27 git clone git://gitorious.org/social/mainline.git .
32 create database social;
35 5. Visit your website and enter your name, database details, etc.