Installation

The environment

System requirements:

• GNU/Linux or Apple macOS
• Ruby 2.0
• RubyGems
• GCC
• Make

This guide will outline the installation of the above requirements on an Ubuntu 16.04 Linux operating system.

Install Ruby

$ sudo apt-get install ruby

Install Ruby Dev package

$ sudo apt-get install ruby-dev

Install RubyGems

$ sudo apt-get install rubygems

Install GCC

GCC should already be installed on the system.

$ gcc -v

Install Make

Make should already be installed on the system.

$ make -v

Add the gems folder to the system path

$ PATH=$PATH:above/path/to/gems >> ~/.bash_profile

The Gem directory usually being:

/var/lib/gems/2.3.0/gems

Jekyll

Install Bundler

A jekyll dependency

$ sudo gem install bundler

###Install Jekyll

$ sudo gem install jekyll

###Check if the installation was succesfull

$ jekyll --version

Install the paginate module

An optional module to generate paginated content lists.

$ sudo gem install jekyll

###Create a new Jekyll site

jekyll new sitename