Chapter 1. Installation

This chapter covers the installation of BlazeBlogger on various operating systems, including GNU/Linux®, and Microsoft® Windows®.

Important

To run BlazeBlogger on your system, a working installation of Perl is required, version 5.8.8 or higher.

1.1. Installing on GNU/Linux

1.1.1. Installing on Arch Linux

BlazeBlogger is currently available in Arch User Repository (AUR). There are two ways to install it on Arch Linux: you can either build the package manually, or you can use the Yaourt utility. In both cases, ensure that the base-devel is installed by running the following command as root:

pacman -S base-devel

To build the BlazeBlogger package manually, take the following steps:

Download the relevant PKGBUILD file from AUR. For example:

wget -t 0 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/blazeblogger/PKGBUILD

Build the package by typing the following command:
```
makepkg -s
```
As root, install the newly built package by typing the following at a shell prompt:
```
pacman -U package_name
```

To install the package by using the Yaourt utility, type:

yaourt -S blazeblogger

1.1.2. Installing on Debian

BlazeBlogger is currently available in both testing (“Squeeze”) and unstable (“Sid”) version of Debian. To install it, open a terminal, and run the following command as root:

apt-get install blazeblogger

1.1.3. Installing on Fedora

BlazeBlogger is currently available in both Fedora 13 (“Goddard”) and Fedora 14 (“Laughlin”). To install it, open a terminal, and run the following command as root:

yum install blazeblogger

1.1.4. Installing on Gentoo

BlazeBlogger is currently available in Gentoo Portage. To install it, open a terminal, and run the following command as root:

emerge blazeblogger

1.1.5. Installing on Ubuntu

BlazeBlogger is currently available in both Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (“Lucid Lynx”) and Ubuntu 10.10 (“Maverick Meerkat”). To install it, open a terminal, and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install blazeblogger