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The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network.
**DISCLAIMER: THIS IS PRE-ALPHA SOFTWARE AND SHOULD BE TREATED ACCORDINGLY.**
These instructions are designed for machines running [Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com/) or Mac OS X.
These instructions are for machines running [Ubuntu](http://www.ubuntu.com/) or Mac OS X.
## Preparing your system
In order to run Diaspora, you will need to download the following dependencies (specific instructions follow):
- [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org) - The Ruby programming language. (We're using 1.8. It comes preinstalled on Mac OS X.)
- Build Tools - Packages needed to compile the components that follow.
- [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org) - The Ruby programming language. (We're using **1.8.7**. It comes preinstalled on Mac OS X.)
- [MongoDB](http://www.mongodb.org) - A snappy noSQL database.
- [OpenSSL](http://www.openssl.org/) - An encryption implementation. (It comes preinstalled on Mac OS X and later versions of Ubuntu.)
- [OpenSSL](http://www.openssl.org/) - An encryption library. (It comes preinstalled on Mac OS X and Ubuntu.)
- [ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/) - An Image processing library used to resize uploaded photos.
- [Git](http://git-scm.com/) - The fast version controll system.
- [Git](http://git-scm.com/) - The fast version control system.
After you have Ruby installed on your system, you will need to get Rubygems, then install Bundler:
After you have Ruby installed on your system, you will need to get RubyGems, then install Bundler:
- [RubyGems](http://rubygems.org/) - Source for Ruby gems.
- [Bundler](http://gembundler.com/) - Gem management tool for Ruby projects.
**We suggest using a package management system to download these dependencies. Trust us, it's going to make your life a lot easier. If you're using Mac OS X, you can use [homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/); and if you're using Ubuntu, just use [Synaptic](http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/) (it comes pre-installed). The below instructions assume you have these installed.**
**We suggest using a package management system to download these dependencies. Trust us, it's going to make your life a lot easier. If you're using Mac OS X, you can use [homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/); and if you're using Ubuntu, just use [Synaptic](http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/) (it comes pre-installed). The instructions below assume you have these installed.**
### Build Tools
To install build tools on **Ubuntu**, run the following (includes the gcc and xml parsing dependencies):
sudo apt-get install build-essential libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxml2
To install build tools on **Mac OS X**, you need to download and install [Xcode](http://developer.apple.com/technologies/tools/xcode.html).
### Ruby
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## Running Diaspora
### Install required gems
In order to start the app server for the **first time**, bundler needs to grab Diaspora's gem depencencies. To allow this, run `bundle install` from Diaspora's root directory.
To start the app server for the **first time**, Bundler needs to grab Diaspora's gem depencencies. To allow this, run `bundle install` from Diaspora's root directory.
It is important to run a bundle install every so often, in the event of a new gem dependency. We will make sure to make an announcement in the event of a gem change.