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authorFrancis Irving <francis@mysociety.org>2010-02-22 12:53:11 +0000
committerFrancis Irving <francis@mysociety.org>2010-02-22 12:53:11 +0000
commit0b6cb934480cc241eae2a633665e47cd78bcd941 (patch)
tree34646af11df9bd53de07b0473953a3c880fe68a5
parent231a7285aaa50db72d4de4ca93fe806600f403fd (diff)
Mention that version are in packages file
-rwxr-xr-xINSTALL.txt11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index d22b1e607..6a4aadbb7 100755
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -18,9 +18,13 @@ Commands are intended to be run via the terminal or over ssh.
Firstly, in a terminal, navigate to the whatdotheyknow folder where this
install guide lives.
-Install the packages that are listed in config/packages using apt-get eg:
+Install the packages that are listed in config/packages using apt-get e.g.:
-> sudo apt-get install `cat config/packages`
+> sudo apt-get install `cut -d " " -f 1 config/packages`
+
+Some of the files also have a version number listed in config/packages - check
+that you have appropriate versions installed. Some also list "|" and offer
+a choice of packages.
Some of the required packages only exist in the mysociety debian archive (or we
have updated versions there), so you will want to add that to your
@@ -29,9 +33,6 @@ have updated versions there), so you will want to add that to your
deb http://debian.mysociety.org etch main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian.mysociety.org etch main non-free contrib
-libgems-ruby1.8 has recently been replaced by rubygems1.8, so you may need to
-update the packages file to reflect this, depending on your version.
-
2. Configure Database
---------------------