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Nazanin Ashrafi
Nazanin Ashrafi

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How To Get Started With Jekyll On Endless OS

#codenewbie #webdev #beginners

Some of you might wonder what the hell is endless OS?!

Short answer : it's is a Linux-based operating system but it works kinda different.
If you'd like to know more about it, you can check this out

And if you're an andless OS user , you already know what this is. so we're moving on.


But before getting started with jekyll, you need to install the requirements :

If you goolge "how to install ruby on linux" and go to the ruby's official page for installation
you'll see that none of the commands work.

I literally spent 2 days on how to install the requirements. So I'm just gonna save you from wasting your time and googling and all the headaches.

As I said none of the commands will work because endless OS is only compatible with Flatpak Applications and ruby doesn’t have a Flatpak version
BUT there is a way to install it .

  • Step One

For installing ruby, you need to install toolbox first :

toolbox create --release f33
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and then run toolbox :

toolbox enter --release f33
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After that you can easily install ruby (inside the toolbox) using this command :

sudo dnf install ruby
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  • Step Two

Now you need "Rubygem", "GCC" and "Make"

Run this command inside the toolbox and it will install the development tools

dnf -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
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  • Step Three

    You're almost done. All you need to do is to run this command in toolbox and install jekyll 
sudo dnf install jekyll
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You're all set and done with the installation.

Now you can create your first Jekyll site

A. Install the bundler gems

gem install jekyll bundler
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B. Create a new Jekyll site

jekyll new myblog
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C. Change into your new directory

cd myblog
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D. Build the site and make it available on a local server

bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload
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--livereload flag will automatically refresh the page

E. Go to localhost:4000

For more information you can head over to Jekyll's site and read the documents .

PS. Remember, You have to run the commands in toolbox : 

toolbox enter --release 33
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I'd like to thank endless forum for helping me to get started with Jekyll.

Here is the original topic that I have created on forum.

Here are a few cheatsheet that will be usefull:
markdown cheatsheet 1

markdown cheatsheet 2

liquid template cheat sheet

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