• Installing gitit on Ubuntu Maverick (or Lucid)

Installing gitit on Ubuntu Maverick (or Lucid)

Packages is not yet available from Ubuntu, but it can be successfully installed from debian packages. Visit http://packages.debian.org/ and open the appropriate files in the browser (open in Ubuntu software center) or wget & then dpkg it directly:

http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pandoc/pandoc_1.5.1.1-5+b1_i386.deb
http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/haskell-filestore/libghc6-filestore-data_0.3.4.2-1_all.deb
http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gitit/gitit_0.7.3.6-1_i386.deb

Please note the mirror location code that is after “ftp.”, which can be virtually any, and that the standard intel package is given here.

Ubuntu Maveric has the same pandoc (probably not exactly the same), but this results in dependency problems, hence pandoc from Debian must be used.

After installation, simply enter

gitit

and start your browser as

http://localhost:5001

voila.

(not tested with Ubuntu Lucid 10.04)