A short while ago, someone popped into the PEAR irc channel on efnet and asked about installing Statusnet – which is a “open source micro messaging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain.” It’s what powers identi.ca and similar micro-blogging services.
Specifically, this person wanted advice on installing the six or so PEAR packages on which this software depends; eight if you include the optional ones.
Foreseeing a number of people wanting similar help, I thought it would be best to create a metapackage to bundle these PEAR packages together – at the least it would mean only one “pear install” command would be required and it would reduce the number of potential mistakes that could be made.
Following my own instructions in the “Dependency Tracking (Meta Packages) with PEAR” section in the PEAR documentation, I quickly came up with Statusnet_Statusnet-0.1.1.tgz.
Install it via “$pear install http://short.ie/statusnettgz” for the moment – as the location of where it’s being hosted may change during the week.
Update 2010-08-10: This article has been translated to Belorussian by Patricia Clausnitzer and is available here.
