Building the NNTPChan server
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This document will help you setup the NNTPChan server from the source code.

##Requirements

NNTPChan can run on the following operating systems:

* Linux
* FreeBSD

Dependancies:

* libsodium _1.0_ or _higher_
* imagemagick
* ffmpeg
* sox
* go _1.6_ or _higher_ **with redis driver**
* go _1.3_ or _higher_ **without redis driver**

##Debian instructions

These are installation instructions for Debian.

###Install Go

Install the Go programming language version _1.6_ from the [Go website](https://golang.org/dl/).

###Install the dependancies

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install imagemagick libsodium-dev ffmpeg sox build-essential git ca-certificates

###Get the NNTPChan source

    git clone https://github.com/majestrate/nntpchan --depth=1
    cd nntpchan

###Now compile!

If you want to compile with Redis support (recommended - Redis is easy to use) then run:

    ./build.sh

If you want to build without support for Redis then build with the `--no-redis` flag:

    ./build.sh --no-redis

##Now let's setup NNTPChan

Check out [Configuring NNTPChan](config.md).