Despite Peter Reiser\u2019s statement (on his twitter feed<\/a> at 1.41 am GMT 3rd Feb) that it installs on Solaris like a dream, I chose to install on Ubuntu Linux<\/b> and there is a specific install page for Ubuntu<\/a> at the Laconica site. It\u2019s also useful to look at the README<\/a> as it documents the pre-requisities and discusses the location of the site within the webserver’s root namespace in more adult fashion than the Ubuntu install page.<\/p>\n I installed version 0.6.3<\/b>.<\/p>\n Critically you need Apache 2, MySQL Client Tools (& Server) and PHP 5, of which the latter two seem not to be installed on my version of Ubuntu (8.04 LTS Hardy Heron). (Actually I didn\u2019t document my processes well enough and not everything was necessarily done in the correct order, so PHP might have been there, but the extensions weren\u2019t.)<\/p>\n I had Apache 2 on my system, so I created a user to act as the Laconica administration user, ignored the suggestion to untar it in \/var\/www, the apache root and created a subdirectory.<\/p>\n It is best to now use the package manager to update MySQL & PHP, read the pre-requisites as you need some of the extensions which the Ubuntu package manager treats as separate packages. I found the Curl, MySQL and GD extensions. (I did this last and some stuff broke without the GD package.) I also re-installed the mod_rewrite package, as I had a problem and wasn\u2019t sure of the cause.<\/p>\n Then its simple, wget and untar the package, edit the config file. The path parameter is relative so no preceding \/, not .\/<\/p>\n And up it comes, I have made a post, changed my avatar and checked the RSS, and I did it all in a Virtual Box image.<\/p>\n See also https:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/DaveLevy\/entry\/do_we_need_private_community<\/p>\n Next, I want to look at the CSS and LDAP integration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This was published in 2009, the product has been superseded and the version dependent facts are over eight years old. This may not be as useful as it once was; the article talks about installing Laconica on an Ubuntu VM.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[111,3],"tags":[112,1184,331,916,330,911],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-technology","tag-cloud-2","tag-deprecated","tag-laconica","tag-linux","tag-microblogging","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/laconica.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5307,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/5307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"laconica\"](\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/laconica.jpg\")
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