These instructions are tested and known to work on Debian stable, which is the system that the Noosfero core developers use to work on Noosfero.
If you want to use another OS, read "Instructions for other systems" below.
Download the source code:
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/noosfero/noosfero.git
$ cd noosfero
Run the quick start script:
$ ./script/quick-start
Now you can execute the development server with:
$ ./script/development
You will be able to access Noosfero at http://localhost:3000/
If you want to use a different port than 3000, pass -p <PORT> to ./script/development
On other OS, you have 2 options:
Use a chroot (http://wiki.debian.org/Schroot) or a Virtual Machine (e.g. with VirtualBox) with a Debian stable system and follow the instructions above for Debian stable.
If you want to setup a development environment in another OS, you can create a file under ./script/install-dependencies/, called <OS>-<CODENAME>.sh, which installed the dependencies for your system. With this script in place, ./script/quick-start will call it at the point of installing the required packages for Noosfero development.
You can check ./script/install-dependencies/debian-squeeze.sh to have an idea of what kind of stuff that script has to do.
If you write such script for your own OS, please share it with us at the development mailing list so that we can include it in the official repository. This way other people using the same OS will have to put less effort to develop Noosfero.
For now please read:
- Coding conventions http://noosfero.org/Development/CodingConventions
- Patch guidelines http://noosfero.org/Development/PatchGuidelines