How to install Ghost on your Raspberry Pi

Here’s how I installed Ghost on my Raspberry Pi with a standard Raspbmc installation.

Setting it up was not so difficult, but a problem with sqlite3 installation required some additional steps.

As reported in the Ghost forums, you need the SQLite development files:

apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

Also make sure you have build-essential installed.

So installing Ghost on my Raspberry Pi (Raspbmc) required these steps:

1. Install Node.js

sudo apt-get install node

2. Install SQLite3

sudo apt-get install sqlite3

3. Install build-essential and libsqlite3-dev

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

Note this will take a while to complete, grab a coffee!

4. Install Ghost

Install following instructions at the Ghost documentation:

curl -L https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip -o ghost.zip
unzip -uo ghost.zip -d ghost
cd /path/to/ghost
npm install --production
npm start

To automate running I used forever as documented in the Ghost deployment guide, and it works perfectly.