I thought I’d write up a little how-to on setting up Octopress on Ubuntu 11.10, since I ran into some issues on a fresh install.

Install RVM

RVM is a version manager for Ruby, more information here

bash < <(curl -s https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/install/rvm)

Add RVM to your shell

echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Install Ruby 1.9.2

Install some dependencies first:

rvm pkg install zlib
rvm pkg install openssl

I had some issues with ruby not finding openssl, for this reason we’re going to use the version that was just installed to your rvm path.

Install Ruby:

rvm install 1.9.2 --with-openssl-dir=$rvm_path/usr
rvm rubygems latest  # This will make sure rubygems is the latest version
rvm use 1.9.2

Setup Octopress

git clone git://github.com/imathis/octopress.git octopress
cd octopress    # If you use RVM, You'll be asked if you trust the .rvmrc file (say yes).
ruby --version  # Should report Ruby 1.9.2

Install dependencies for Octopress

gem install bundler
bundle install

Install Octopress with default settings

rake install

Configure Octopress

Nothing special required here, just follow the Official Docs.

All Finished!

Everything should be working just fine now. Go ahead and follow the instructions here to make your first post.

Hi there! I’m attempting at setting up my site again so I can blog about stuff that I’m doing and to share other interesting things.

I’m using Octopress, you should check it out!