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fossar / selfoss

multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application
https://selfoss.aditu.de
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Provide complete installation steps for popular distributions #976

Open ghost opened 7 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

I tried to install selfoss on Fedora 26 and failed. In the end I was somewhat frustrated and gave up after getting an "an error occured" message and not knowing why. Maybe I had unmet dependencies, maybe it was an SELinux issue, I don't know and I don't care anymore (the VM I used doesn't exist anymore). The current install instructions are kind of rudimentary and the support forum wasn't of much help either. But this isn't supposed to be a useless rant, especially since the error is probably sitting in front of my keyboard. So, would it be possible to get a step-by-step installation guide for Debian 9 and/or Fedora 26?

niol commented 7 years ago

Sorry to hear that.

Did you try to install from git, from a snapshot zip or from a release zip?

ghost commented 7 years ago

I was using the git-version. I probably messed up the npm-stuff. I started over, this time on Debian to avoid possible SELinux issues, tried the normal release and got it working. I had unrelated computer-troubles at the time and wasn't in the right frame of mind to systematically track the problem down. I'm sorry.

The install instructions can still be improved though. On Debian 9 I had to:

jtojnar commented 7 years ago

There are already some guides on the wiki but it is not clear if the steps can be replicated on a fresh system or there were some packages already installed. We will need to try to install selfoss in fresh virtual machine for each distribution. This is on my to-do list but unfortunately almost at the bottom.