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authorIlja <pleroma@spectraltheorem.be>2021-08-10 06:09:31 +0000
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Make the OPT recomendation clearer
AFAIK OTP releases are the recomended way of installing, but * People seem unaware of that and use from source installations because they use the guide with the name of their distro * People don't know what OTP releases are or what it means I added a warning on all installation-from-source guides and added the same explanation on the two OTP pages (the miigration to OTP and installing OTP) Backport of: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/merge_requests/3485
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# Installing on Linux using OTP releases
+{! backend/installation/otp_vs_from_source.include !}
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+This guide covers a installation using an OTP release. To install Pleroma from source, please check out the corresponding guide for your distro.
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## Pre-requisites
* A machine running Linux with GNU (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu) or musl (e.g. Alpine) libc and `x86_64`, `aarch64` or `armv7l` CPU, you have root access to. If you are not sure if it's compatible see [Detecting flavour section](#detecting-flavour) below
* A (sub)domain pointed to the machine