Active development happens on the git branch “:master”, and we will try to keep it stable. However, the tags will receive more testing, and in general should be more reliable as a mechanism to upgrade local installs. git master should be considered “Gitorious beta” (generally stable, may have occasional issues, incomplete features a.s.o), while tags provide stable releases.

For a Chef based automated install for Debian Squeeze or recent Ubuntu you can try these instructions. There is another one using RVM for installing Ruby and some (a little bit) outdated instructions on how to set-up it using Chef-solo.

See Also

Upgrading

• UbuntuInstallation – Step by step instructions for installing Gitorious under Ubuntu 9.04
  
• Gentoo_Installation – The portage way.
  
• Rhel_Installation – Installation guide for RHEL 5 by some kickass team called Verso.
  
• DebianLennyInstallation – Step by step instructions for install Gitorious under Debian Lenny 5.0.8
  
• DebianSqueezeInstallation – Step by step instructions for install Gitorious under Debian Squeeze 6.0.0

After installation, see Configuration.

[DISCONTINUED – TODO: should we remove this reference?] If you want a automated installation script for gitorious in ubuntu you can try this one written by Marcelo Murad.