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Installing Forem on Ubuntu 18.04 (Part 7 - Forem)

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avalerionv profile image Dawood Khan Masood ・Updated on ・1 min read

If there is anything you would like me to change, please comment. This section of the guide assumes you have already installed Elastic Search from the previous article.

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Prerequisites

Update your package lists by typing:

$ sudo apt-get update
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Install the development version of libcurl4 by typing:

$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4 libcurl4-openssl-dev -y
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Installing Forem

Clone 'Forem' from the source repository into '~/forem' by typing:

$ git clone https://github.com/forem/forem.git ~/forem
$ cd ~/forem
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Install bundler by typing:

$ gem install bundler
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Create 'application.yml' from the sample template (sample_application.yml). To do so, type:

$ cp .env_sample .env
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Run the ruby 'setup' file:

$ bin/setup
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Verify Forem is installed by typing:

$ bin/startup
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The output will be something like this:

== STARTING UP ==
14:05:32 web.1       | started with pid 68343
14:05:32 webpacker.1 | started with pid 68344
14:05:32 sidekiq.1   | started with pid 68345
14:05:37 webpacker.1 | ℹ ｢wds｣: Project is running at http://0.0.0.0:3035/
14:05:37 webpacker.1 | ℹ ｢wds｣: webpack output is served from /packs/
14:05:37 webpacker.1 | ℹ ｢wds｣: Content not from webpack is served from /home/hackhex/forem/public/packs
14:05:37 webpacker.1 | ℹ ｢wds｣: 404s will fallback to /index.html
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Akhil Naidu •

Create 'application.yml' from the sample template (sample_application.yml). To do so, type:

cp ./config/sample_application.yml ./config/application.yml This command has been updated to cp .env_sample .env in the Forem documentation.

So try to check it and if required update this guide accordingly. I updated it in Forem in Docker Guide, to stay authentic to Forem guide.

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Dawood Khan Masood Author •

Missed that part! Thank you for the correction. :)

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