Unofficial Installation Guides

Use with caution! These guides have been reported to work, but we can't guarantee they work or are updated.

For the official installation and package options please see the installation page on the website

Unofficial guides for installing GitLab

GitLab 8.x

• OSX installation guide for v8.x

GitLab 7.x

For reference only, do not use version 7.x and older

• OSX installation guide for v7.x
• SaltStack installation guide for v7.x (and other versions)
• FreeBSD 10 installation guide for v7.x (portuguese) => use http://www.freshports.org/www/gitlab instead
• FreeBSD 10 installation guide for v7.6+ (English) => use http://www.freshports.org/www/gitlab instead

GitLab 6.x

For reference only, do not use version 7.x and older

• OSX installation guide for v6.x
• Gentoo installation guide for v6.x
• Puppet installation guide for v6.x
• Another Puppet installation guide for v6.x
• SLES11 installation guide for v6.x
• RedHat Enterprise 5 guide for v6.x
• RedHat Enterprise 6.4 guide using SCL for v6.x
• FreeBSD guide for v6.x => use http://www.freshports.org/www/gitlab instead

GitLab 5.x and older

For reference only, do not use version 7.x and older

• [CentOS 6 guide for v5.0] (http://www.pickysysadmin.ca/2013/03/25/how-to-install-gitlab-5-0-on-centos-6/)
• Debian Squeeze complete Installation 'script' with RVM
• Chef installation for v5.3
• OpenSUSE 12.3 guide for v5.0
• FreeBSD guide for v5.1 or v5.2 => use http://www.freshports.org/www/gitlab instead
• OSX guide for v5.2
• Gentoo guide for v5.3
• Installing Gitlab with RVM (Tested on Ubuntu)
• Mac OS X guide for v4.2
• Gentoo guide for v4.0
• CentOS guide for v2.6