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The best way to install Jekyll is via RubyGems:

gem install jekyll

Jekyll requires the gems directory_watcher, liquid, open4, maruku and classifier. These are automatically installed by the gem install command.

If you encounter errors during gem installation, you may need to install the header files for compiling extension modules for ruby 1.8. This can be done on Debian systems by:

sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev

or on Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora systems by:

sudo yum install ruby-devel

On NearlyFreeSpeech you need:

RB_USER_INSTALL=true gem install jekyll

If you encounter errors like Failed to build gem native extension on Windows you may need to install RubyInstaller DevKit.

On OSX, you may need to update RubyGems:

sudo gem update --system

LaTeX to PNG

Maruku comes with optional support for LaTeX to PNG rendering via blahtex (Version 0.6) which must be in your $PATH along with dvips.

(NOTE: remi’s fork of Maruku does not assume a fixed location for dvips if you need that fixed)

RDiscount

If you prefer to use RDiscount instead of Maruku for markdown, just make sure it’s installed:

sudo gem install rdiscount

And run Jekyll with the following option:

jekyll --rdiscount

Or, in your _config.yml file put the following so you don’t have to specify the flag:

markdown: rdiscount

Pygments

If you want syntax highlighting via the {% highlight %} tag in your posts, you’ll need to install Pygments.

On OSX with MacPorts:
sudo port install python25 py25-pygments

On OSX with Homebrew:
brew install pip && pip install pygments
Note: Homebrew doesn’t symlink the executable for you. For Homebrew default Cellar location and Python 2.7:
ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7/bin/pygmentize /usr/local/bin/pygmentize

Alternatively on OS X Leopard:
sudo easy_install Pygments

On Archlinux:
sudo pacman -S python-pygments
Or to use python2 for pygments:
sudo pacman -S python2-pygments
Note: python2 pygments version creates a pygmentize2 executable, while jekyll tries to find pygmentize.
Either create a symlink # ln -s /usr/bin/pygmentize2 /usr/bin/pygmentize or use the python3 version.

On Ubuntu and Debian:
sudo apt-get install python-pygments

On Gentoo:
sudo emerge -av dev-python/pygments

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