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Installation

^{Guide by @Hekter (source)}

1. Install Go. This is relatively easy, and the Go team explains it far better than I can over on their getting started page.
2. Install Mercurial, either from the project website or from your local Linux distributor's package repository.
3. Get a copy of the Ghostbin source. You can find instructions on GitHub on how to do that, from cloning the repository to getting a zip file.

• Make sure the Ghostbin source is in your GOPATH. The GOPATH is explained further in the Go documentation.

4. Run go get from the Ghostbin directory.

• If you get an error stating that $GOPATH is not set, see step 3.

5. Run go build. This should be the easiest step assuming Step 3 went off without a hitch.
6. Ghostbin uses Pygments to syntax-highlight pastes. Pygments can be downloaded from its project page. Keep in mind the path to pygmentize as you install it.

• Your local Linux distributor may have a pygments package. If you install the aforementioned package, the path to pygmentize will probably be something like /usr/bin/pygmentize.
• Update Ghostbin's languages.yml to reflect the path to pygmentize.

7. Pygments is great, but the highlighted code it generates will be decidedly free of colour. To fix that, we need a stylesheet. You can generate one with pygmentize -f html -S $STYLE > public/css/theme-pygments.css. Pygments includes the following styles by default:

   ['monokai', 'manni', 'rrt',  'perldoc',  'borland', 
    'colorful',  'default',  'murphy',  'vs',  'trac', 
    'tango', 'fruity', 'autumn', 'bw', 'emacs', 'vim', 
    'pastie', 'friendly', 'native']
   

8. Presuming that everything was done correctly, you should be able to run ./ghostbin in your Ghostbin directory now! Ghostbin will by default bind to port 8080, and you can access this on the host machine by visiting http://localhost:8080.

That's should be all! Let us know over on Github if you run into any further issues and we'll do our best to help out.