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[leus]

Would love to install Octopress. Since I'm not a Linux fan only endured a couple of steps before bailing off.

Has anybody succeeded installing Octopress on ASO?

Edited by IBBoard, 17 July 2012 - 01:39 PM.

[NyteOwl]

I haven't tried as I don't use Ruby, having only played with it a bit, but in looking through the official site it looks pretty straightforward. It is a somewhat specialized framework as it was designed to work with Git, Jekyll and Ruby, but if you're lredy using those it shouldn't be a problem.

[leus]

NyteOwl, on 12 July 2012 - 11:50 AM, said:

I haven't tried as I don't use Ruby, having only played with it a bit, but in looking through the official site it looks pretty straightforward. It is a somewhat specialized framework as it was designed to work with Git, Jekyll and Ruby, but if you're lredy using those it shouldn't be a problem.

Yeah... it apparently needs GCC which I don't have permission to run.

[IBBoard]

To be fair, the top of the install page does say:

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Octopress is a blogging framework for hackers. You should be comfortable running shell commands and familiar with the basics of Git. If that sounds daunting, Octopress probably isn’t for you.

That said, I can't see anything that directly requires GCC, but then again I've not tried it. If it is part of the Ruby build process that requires GCC then your only option would be to create a virtual machine on your local machine, build it there and then upload to the ASO server (or get a VPS where you have full permissions anyway, but have to manage everything yourself).

[ASOAyron]

Since Octopress is just a static site generator, you can run Octopress on your local machine to generate the pages, then deploy that to your hosting account.