Installation on Debian

In order to install StatusNet on a Debian lenny system, you should have the following packages installed:


 * libapache2-mod-php5
 * mysql-server-5.0
 * php-gettext
 * php5-curl
 * php5-gd
 * php5-mysql

In order to use fancy URLs using the provided .htaccess sample, you should perform the following steps:


 * 1) run "a2enmod rewrite",
 * 2) set AllowOverride to "All" instead of "None" in the /var/www section of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default, and
 * 3) restart Apache.