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diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.md b/doc/INSTALL.md index e0ed76567..8c4ed505b 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL.md +++ b/doc/INSTALL.md @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Next, get hold of the Alaveteli source code from github: git clone https://github.com/sebbacon/alaveteli.git cd alaveteli -This will get the current release. If you are a developer and want to +This will get the current stable release. If you are a developer and want to add or try new features, you might want to swap to the development branch: @@ -33,9 +33,10 @@ 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`: +packages by adding the following to `/etc/apt/sources.list` and +running `apt-get update`: - deb http://debian.mysociety.org squeeze main non-free contrib + deb http://debian.mysociety.org squeeze main Now install the packages that are listed in config/packages using apt-get e.g.: @@ -206,17 +207,7 @@ probably don't want this in your development profile; the example # Deployment -On Debian, at least, the binaries installed by bundler are not put in -the system `PATH`; therefore, in order to run `rake` (needed for -deployments), you will 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/ - -Now, in the 'alaveteli' directory, run: +In the 'alaveteli' directory, run: ./script/rails-post-deploy @@ -229,6 +220,17 @@ One of the things the script does is install dependencies (using `bundle install`). Note that the first time you run it, part of the `bundle install` that compiles `xapian-full` takes a *long* time! +On Debian, at least, the binaries installed by bundler are not put in +the system `PATH`; therefore, in order to run `rake` (needed for +deployments), you will 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/ + + If you want some dummy data to play with, you can try loading the fixtures that the test suite uses into your development database. You can do this with: |