== Omnibus Packages ==

Note: this page is about the installation of upstream-provided unofficial packages. See [[gitlab]] if you want to install native debian packages.

== Install ==
all actions are performed under the root user, in ~ unless otherwise noted.

=== Step 1 ===
navigate to https://about.gitlab.com/install/ and copy down the link to the Debian deb package.

as of this writing @ June 5, 2014

run

 *wget https://downloads-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/debian-7.4/gitlab_6.9.2-omnibus-1_amd64.deb

=== Step 2 ===
run
 *dpkg -i gitlab*

=== Step 3 ===
--(i got errors 1st time around 2nd time around gitlab looked like it set everything and ran well.)--

To avoid errors, execute ''/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/runsvdir-start'' for one minute, more or less (tested in 7.9.0 and 7.9.1 omnibus versions).

run
 *gitlab-ctl reconfigure

to verify that things are running

run
 *gitlab-ctl status

=== Step 4 ===
navigate to your servers IP address or domain name, and login as:

user: root
password: 5iveL!fe

== External Resources ==
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/README.md