How to Install Thredded on Fedora Server

Thredded is a popular open-source forum software developed in Ruby on Rails. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Thredded on Fedora Server.

Prerequisites

Before you start the installation process, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:

  • A Fedora Server latest version installed on your system
  • A user account with sudo privileges
  • A working internet connection

Step 1: Install Ruby and RubyGems

Thredded is built on Ruby on Rails, so you need to install Ruby and RubyGems on your system. To do this, run the following command:

sudo dnf install ruby rubygems

Once the installation is complete, verify the version of Ruby by running the following command:

ruby -v

It should show you the version of Ruby installed on your system.

Step 2: Install the required packages

You need to install some required packages like GCC, make, libxml2, and SQLite3. To install these packages, run the following command:

sudo dnf install gcc make libxml2-devel sqlite-devel

Step 3: Install Bundler

Thredded uses Bundler to manage its dependencies. To install Bundler, run the following command:

sudo gem install bundler

Once installed, verify the installation by running the following command:

bundler -v

It should show you the version of Bundler installed on your system.

Step 4: Install Thredded

Now you can install Thredded using the following command:

sudo gem install thredded

Once the installation is complete, Thredded will be installed on your system.

Step 5: Create a new Thredded application

Now that you have installed Thredded, you can create a new Thredded application. To do this, run the following command:

thredded new myforum

This will create a new Thredded application with the name myforum. You can replace myforum with the name of your choice.

Step 6: Start the application

Now you can start the Thredded application by running the following command:

cd myforum
rails server

This will start the application on port 3000. You can access the application by going to http://localhost:3000 in your web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Thredded on Fedora Server. We also showed you how to create a new Thredded application and start the server. If you encounter any issues during the installation process, refer to the official Thredded documentation for help.