This page will describe by efforts to upgrade SocialText from version v2.19.0.2 to git version

First part is installation of Dapper OpenVZ container

Install git

root@stwiki3:~# apt-get install git-core

Checkout source

dpavlin@clone-saturn:~$ git clone git://github.com/socialtext/socialtext.git
remote: Counting objects: 75434, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (19078/19078), done.
Indexing 75434 objects.
remote: Total 75434 (delta 51423), reused 73391 (delta 49592)
 100% (75434/75434) done
Resolving 51423 deltas.
 100% (51423/51423) done
Checking files out...
 100% (3260/3260) done

Install dependencies

dpavlin@stwiki3:~$ sudo apt-get install `cat socialtext/nlw/build/pkg-lists/dapper`

This is from docs/INSTALL.apt-get in SocialText git repository

dpavlin@clone-saturn:~$ cd socialtext/nlw/
dpavlin@clone-saturn:~/socialtext/nlw$ ./configure --socialtext-open 1 --force-ssl-login 1 --apache-proxy 0

# install rest of perl dependencies