Installing jekyll on Linux

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I use jekyll on some of my projects to produce a static html web page, like this one. I can easily edit the source and have an OK looking frontend without doing much CSS work. I find myself googling a few things from the errors I get inside the terminal as I try to install jekyll and all the necessary components needed to serve my web page. Here is a condensed version of what needs to be installed to have your github page served locally.

  1. sudo apt-get install ruby gem ruby-dev ruby-bundler zlib1g-dev nodejs
  2. sudo gem install jekyll nokogiri
  3. bundle install

Finally, in your github pages repo, you can now run bundle exec jekyll serve

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