Running Jekyll on Amazon Linux 2
17 Feb 2019 - Aaron Dodd
Switching to AWS Workspaces using the Amazon Linux 2 image as my main development machine, I was struggling to get Jekyll running. There are a few differences from Ubuntu and the Jekyll installation instructions.
First, install Ruby using the amazon-linux-extras command:
$ amazon-linux-extras list
0 ansible2 available [ =2.4.2 =2.4.6 ]
2 httpd_modules available [ =1.0 ]
3 memcached1.5 available [ =1.5.1 ]
4 nginx1.12 available [ =1.12.2 ]
5 postgresql9.6 available [ =9.6.6 =9.6.8 ]
6 postgresql10 available [ =10 ]
8 redis4.0 available [ =4.0.5 =4.0.10 ]
9 R3.4 available [ =3.4.3 ]
10 rust1 available \
[ =1.22.1 =1.26.0 =1.26.1 =1.27.2 =1.31.0 ]
11 vim available [ =8.0 ]
13 ruby2.4=latest enabled [ =2.4.2 =2.4.4 ]
15 php7.2 available \
[ =7.2.0 =7.2.4 =7.2.5 =7.2.8 =7.2.11 =7.2.13 =7.2.14 ]
16 php7.1 available [ =7.1.22 =7.1.25 ]
17 lamp-mariadb10.2-php7.2 available \
[ =10.2.10_7.2.0 =10.2.10_7.2.4 =10.2.10_7.2.5
=10.2.10_7.2.8 =10.2.10_7.2.11 =10.2.10_7.2.13
=10.2.10_7.2.14 ]
18 libreoffice=latest enabled [ =5.0.6.2_15 =5.3.6.1 ]
19 gimp=latest enabled [ =2.8.22 ]
20 docker=latest enabled \
[ =17.12.1 =18.03.1 =18.06.1 ]
21 mate-desktop1.x=latest enabled [ =1.19.0 =1.20.0 ]
22 GraphicsMagick1.3=latest enabled [ =1.3.29 ]
23 tomcat8.5 available [ =8.5.31 =8.5.32 ]
24 epel available [ =7.11 ]
25 testing available [ =1.0 ]
26 ecs available [ =stable ]
27 corretto8 available \
[ =1.8.0_192 =1.8.0_202 ]
28 firecracker available [ =0.11 ]
29 golang1.11 available [ =1.11.3 ]
30 squid4 available [ =4 ]
$ amazon-linux-extras install ruby2.4Then, install additional packages, jekyll, and bundler
sudo yum install ruby-rdoc ruby-devel -y
sudo gem install jekyll bundlerTo run Jekyll, I had to do so via bundle exec instead of jekyll s
bundle exec jekyll serve