Installing Jekyll and Pygments on ArchLinux
Jekyll is a simple, blog aware, static site generator. I use it for this blog and the cool part about it is that is very simple and easy to use and there’s already plenty of websites using it.
I forked jtoy.net and was ready to blog in about an hour.
I didn’t use ruby1.9 but 1.8.7 because of some issues with pygments.
First if you don’t have ruby, let’s install it.
Remove the “ruby” package, so that it doesn’t mess up, and retrieve and build the packages with any way you’re comfortable with,
$ pacman -R ruby
$ yaourt -S ruby1.8
$ yaourt -S rubygems1.8
# ruby1.8 installs ruby-1.8 executable. link it to "ruby":
$ cd /usr/bin
$ ln ruby-1.8 ruby -s
If you need syntax highlighting, you need python and pygments :
$ pacman -S python
download the last version of easy_install (ruby gems equivalent for python) and install pygments :
$ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
$ sudo sh setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.eg
$ easy_install Pygments
Install Jekyll :
$ sudo gem install jekyll
Next, if you want the “Related posts” feature, you’ll need the the Ruby GSL package.
I first tried to install it via yaourt but it didn’t work (conflicts with rubygems), next I try do download the last version (1.10.3) but it didn’t work as well … So I took the last version from the SVN :
$ svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rb-gsl
$ cd rb-gsl/trunk/rb-gsl
$ ruby setup.rb config
$ ruby setup.rb setup
$ sudo ruby setup.rb install
Finally, this is how I run Jekyll:
$ jekyll --pygments --lsi
To preview the website you can specify the option —server
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