For those of you who haven't heard, the first developer preview of Diaspora has been released. It's social networking software that allows you to be in control of your own data (cf: Facebook/Orkut). The concept is of "seeds" or individual deployments of this software that can talk to each other, so say a diaspora user in India can connect with someone in the USA irrespective of what "seed" they're connected to. You can find out more from: http://www.joindiaspora.com/
In the code provided there is a Ubuntu installation script. However this didn't work for me (no idea why, it breaks at line 30). I wrote a simpler version of it which should do the trick. For Lucid, this should work out of the box. For other releases you need to change the RELEASE variable at the top to 9.10 for Karmic, 9.4 for Jaunty etc. This is for installing MongoDB automatically (more info here: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Ubuntu+and+Debian+packages) Script to install Diaspora: http://pastebin.ca/1942738 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
