From 11453785c0ae71b4f05d0d7804ca3d5b8b815fe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robb Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:31:34 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Update install.md --- docs/install.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/install.md b/docs/install.md index 48fe281f6..9bb9efbcf 100644 --- a/docs/install.md +++ b/docs/install.md @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ LibreTime should generally be installed on a dedicated host running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). +You can download LibreTime from our [github repo](https://github.com/LibreTime/libretime) In order to run the latest codebase you can click the green Clone or download button. It is recommended to type ``` git clone https://github.com/LibreTime/libretime.git ``` (if you Debian based system lacks git then you can type ``` sudo apt-get install git ```) and this will download the source code to your repository. You can also click Releases and download a tarball of our latest releases. You will then need to extract this archive into a directory on your server. It is not recommended that you install LibreTime on the same computer you are using as a desktop. So you will probably need to use wget for instance ```wget https://github.com/LibreTime/libretime/releases/download/3.0.0-alpha.6/libretime-3.0.0-alpha.6.tar.gz``` and then extract it by typing ```tar -xvzf libretime-3.0.0-alpha.6.tar.gz``` in the directory you downloaded it into. + Once you have downloaded and extracted the LibreTime repository, run the instalation script by navigating into the folder containing the LibreTime codebase, and run it's install script from the command line: :::bash From 4303a9d1e6b8d324817702c359333bd80bd65036 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ryan Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:20:01 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] docs: add recomendations to instalation instructions --- docs/install.md | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/install.md b/docs/install.md index 9bb9efbcf..8f5760e01 100644 --- a/docs/install.md +++ b/docs/install.md @@ -1,13 +1,18 @@ # Installing LibreTime -LibreTime should generally be installed on a dedicated host running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). +LibreTime releases can be downloaded [here](https://github.com/LibreTime/libretime/releases). -You can download LibreTime from our [github repo](https://github.com/LibreTime/libretime) In order to run the latest codebase you can click the green Clone or download button. It is recommended to type ``` git clone https://github.com/LibreTime/libretime.git ``` (if you Debian based system lacks git then you can type ``` sudo apt-get install git ```) and this will download the source code to your repository. You can also click Releases and download a tarball of our latest releases. You will then need to extract this archive into a directory on your server. It is not recommended that you install LibreTime on the same computer you are using as a desktop. So you will probably need to use wget for instance ```wget https://github.com/LibreTime/libretime/releases/download/3.0.0-alpha.6/libretime-3.0.0-alpha.6.tar.gz``` and then extract it by typing ```tar -xvzf libretime-3.0.0-alpha.6.tar.gz``` in the directory you downloaded it into. +Recommendations: +- LibreTime should generally be installed on a dedicated host running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus). +- LibreTime is undergoing active development, and is currently in ALPHA. +- It is not recommended that you install LibreTime on the same computer you are using as a desktop. +- Please review the release notes of the version you are planning on installing. -Once you have downloaded and extracted the LibreTime repository, run the instalation script by navigating into the folder containing the LibreTime codebase, and run it's install script from the command line: +Once you have downloaded and extracted LibreTime, run the instalation script by navigating into the folder containing the LibreTime codebase, and run it's install script from the command line: - :::bash - sudo ./install +``` +sudo ./install +``` By default, the installer will install and configure all dependencies.