Using the Omnibus package

The people from GitLab have created an Omnibus package for the major Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS). These packages are an easy way of installing your GitLab installation, as they have all the dependencies packaged with them.

For this recipe, we are going to use the Ubuntu version of the Omnibus package.

Getting ready

Before we start installing, you need to have a server installed with a Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit system, and have SSH access to the server.

How to do it…

Here is how you can install GitLab using Omnibus:

  1. Download the package, change the X.Y.Z portion to the version you want to download. At the time of writing, 7.3.2 is the latest version:
    wget https://downloads-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu-12.04/gitlab_X.Y.Z-omnibus.5.1.0.ci-1_amd64.deb ...

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