Running Typo svn on Debian Stable (Sarge)

After numerous attempts to upgrade this site to the latest version of Typo and the current version of Ruby on Rails I’ve finally succeeded. The things that tripped me up were:

• Debian `stable` ships Ruby 1.8.2. Whilst this is fine for Rails 1.1 I couldn’t migrate to Typo svn’s schema which I thought meant I needed 1.8.4. I didn’t
• I was running Postgres 7.4.7 (again Debian default which was causing the migration problems

Once I’d figured my way past those I’m now running Postgresql from Debian Backports and Ruby 1.8.4 of my own concoction, with Rails 1.1 (from gems, not debs). A side effect of this is that my old theme was broken on Typo svn so for the time being I’ve switched to Scribbish which is a fantastic theme for for general use and to base your own on – which I shall be doing shortly.

Here’s what I did to solve the package issues I had.

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