Where to get it

Git

Browse our version control system at http://github.com/bestpractical/jifty or point your git client at

git://github.com/bestpractical/jifty.git.

Don't forget to grab Jifty::DBI from git too with

git clone git://github.com/bestpractical/jifty-dbi.git

Jifty in the git repo often requires a newer Jifty::DBI than the ones on CPAN or in the repos below.

CPAN

Browse Jifty's documentation or download a fresh copy.

Install via CPAN with the command:

perl -MCPAN -e'install Jifty'

Windows (ActiveState Perl)

See http://ppm.tcool.org/ for details.

Basically, type these at the command line:

1) ppm rep add tcool http://ppm.tcool.org/archives/
2) ppm rep
3) ppm rep off (number) to disable all the other repositories (strongly recommended)
4) ppm install Jifty

If you use older ActivePerl (5.8.8.817 and older):

1') ppm rep add tcool http://ppm.tcool.org/server/ppmserver.cgi?urn:PPMServer

and do the same.

Debian / Ubuntu

Since Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) and Debian Squeeze

apt-get install jifty

for optional plugins

apt-cache search jifty plugin

Backports on debian.jifty.org repository

Add Yves Agostini GPG key to your APT keychain : 842CC261

with

wget http://www.crium.univ-metz.fr/agostini-842CC261.gpg -q -O - | apt-key add -

Jifty 1.01209 since Ubuntu lucid (10.04), maverick (10.10) Add to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://debian.jifty.org/debian lucid jifty
Jifty 0.90519 for Debian Lenny

deb http://debian.jifty.org/debian lenny jifty

apt-get update
apt-get install jifty

for optional plugins

apt-cache search jifty plugin

Gentoo

If you don't have it already installed, emerge the ultimate gentoo/cpan tool 'g-cpan'

emerge g-cpan

then use it to build ebuilds for Jifty and everything it depends on for which no ebuilds exists yet and install everything via these created ebuilds:

g-cpan -i Jifty

This will take a lot of time even on a fairly potent system, ~15min on a Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz with 2GB RAM (It will build ebuilds for and emerge ~75 packages). Jifty::DBI will be installed automatically.

Note that g-cpan will use the first overlay it finds - if you are using layman, you might want to check these settings before using g-cpan; for additional information check the g-cpan manual page

man g-cpan

How to upgrade it

Basically, just re-install latest versions of Jifty and Jifty::DBI from CPAN or the repositories shown above. That is the easiest way.

If you want to switch to the state-of-the-art svn HEAD version after you installed Jifty from somewhere, do the following:

1) Prepare a directory

 mkdir <directory_where_you_want_to_install_Jifty_and_Jifty::DBI>
 chdir <the_directory>

2) Checkout the state-of-the-art Jifty and Jifty::DBI

 git clone git://github.com/bestpractical/jifty.git
 git clone git://github.com/bestpractical/jifty-dbi.git

This would checkout both Jifty and Jifty::DBI among others (if you've already checked them out, just 'git pull').

3) You can install both Jifty and Jifty::DBI with 'perl Makefile.PL && make install' in the respective directories

3') Or you can set PATH and PERL5LIB environmental variables to tell your perl where you checked out Jifty and Jifty::DBI (point to the 'bin' and 'lib' directories under the checked-out directory respectively).

Sometimes you might need to install new dependencies from CPAN or other repos. And don't forget to 'make test' to confirm that the latest version after a 'git pull' works for you.

Enjoy!

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