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diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.md b/doc/INSTALL.md index ef354c5ce..b71b89676 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL.md +++ b/doc/INSTALL.md @@ -33,15 +33,17 @@ used to parse documents, host the site, etc. There are also packages that contain headers necessary to compile some of the gem dependencies in the next step. -If you are running Debian, you can use specially compiled mysociety -packages by adding the following to `/etc/apt/sources.list` and -running `apt-get update`: +If you are running Debian, add the following repositories to +`/etc/apt/sources.list` and run `apt-get update`: deb http://debian.mysociety.org squeeze main + deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib -If you don't set up that mySociety Debian source (e.g. if you're -running Ubuntu), you should comment out `wkhtmltopdf-static` from -`config/packages`, as it won't install in the next step +The repositories above allow us to install the packages +`wkthmltopdf-static` and `bundler` using `apt`; so if you're running +Ubuntu, you won't be able to use the above repositories, and you will +need to comment out those two lines in `config/packages` before +following the next step (and install bundler manually). Now install the packages that are listed in config/packages using apt-get e.g.: @@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ Some of the files also have a version number listed in config/packages # Install Ruby dependencies -Install rubygems 1.6.1 (we're not using the Debian package because we +Install rubygems 1.6.2 (we're not using the Debian package because we need an older version; see "Troubleshooting" below for an explanation): @@ -316,6 +318,9 @@ like `!!(*= $this *)!!`. The variables are: * `user`: the user that the software runs as * `site`: a string to identify your alaveteli instance +There is a dumb python script at `script/make-crontab` which you can +edit and run to do some basic substitution for you. + One of the cron jobs refers to a script at `/etc/init.d/foi-alert-tracks`. This is an init script, a copy of which lives in `config/alert-tracks-debian.ugly`. As with the cron @@ -471,8 +476,4 @@ various other things that can be automated for deployment. deployments), you may need to do something like: ln -s /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin/rake /usr/local/bin/ - - Or (Debian): - - ln -s /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/bin/rake /usr/local/bin/ |