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diff --git a/docs/installing/manual_install.md b/docs/installing/manual_install.md index 6f244d3d5..9c554f035 100644 --- a/docs/installing/manual_install.md +++ b/docs/installing/manual_install.md @@ -198,26 +198,21 @@ Create a new linux user to run the Alaveteli application. ## Get Alaveteli -To start with, you may need to install git, e.g. with `apt-get install -git-core` +Create the target directory and clone the Alaveteli source code in to this directory: -Next, get hold of the Alaveteli source code from github: + mkdir -p /var/www/alaveteli + chown alaveteli:alaveteli /var/www/alaveteli + sudo -u alaveteli git clone --recursive \ + --branch master \ + https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli.git /var/www/alaveteli - git clone https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli.git - cd alaveteli +This clones the master branch which always contains the latest stable release. If you want to try out the latest (possibly buggy) code you can switch to the `rails-3-develop` branch. -This will get the rails-3-develop branch, which has the latest (possibly buggy) -code. If you don't want to add or try new features, swap to the master branch -(which always contains the latest stable release): + pushd /var/www/alaveteli + sudo -u alaveteli git checkout rails-3-develop + popd - git checkout master - -## Install mySociety libraries - -Next, install mySociety's common ruby libraries. To fetch the contents of the -submodules, run: - - git submodule update --init +The `--recursive` option installs mySociety's common libraries which are required to run Alaveteli. ## Install the dependencies |