By Farrel Burns
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Jekyll is a Ruby Gem that can be installed on most systems. It’s a straightforward process on both Mac and Linux, and only slightly more involved on Windows. Either way, it won’t take you long to get set up with Jekyll!
How to install Jekyll
Jekyll is a Ruby Gem, which means you will need to install a couple of dependencies to allow the Gem to run on your system.
You will need:
- Ruby version 2.4.0 or higher, including all development headers (check by running the command
ruby -v) - RubyGems (check by running the command
gem -v) - GCC (check by running the command
gcc -v,g++ -v) - Make (check by running the command
make -v)
For a step-by-step walkthrough to help you install these, head to the Jekyll installation guides and follow the instructions for your system.
Install Jekyll
Once you have done that you are ready to install the Jekyll gem. Go to your command line interface and run
gem install jekyll bundler
Final installation check
To check that the Jekyll installation has worked properly, run the following command:
jekyll -v
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