Installing Jekyll

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!

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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.

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1. Ruby version 2.4.0 or higher, including all development headers (check by running the command ruby -v)
2. RubyGems (check by running the command gem -v)
3. GCC (check by running the command gcc -v, g++ -v)
4. 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.

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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

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To check that the Jekyll installation has worked properly, run the following command:

jekyll -v