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For solo work as a dev surrounded by hardware people, I set up GitLab. Installation took a lot of effort and had a surprising number of service dependencies. For a single user it wasn't worth my time to install or maintain. Though, it is a really nice product once running.

I switched to Gitweb and sd (http://syncwith.us/sd/using/). I don't love sd, but the overhead of managing source and tickets for myself makes the combo worth it.

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Gitlab now has prepackaged downloads available for Ubuntu and CentOS[0]. I originally setup 2 Gitlab servers a long time ago, one I replaced with the new package version and the other I'm fixing to. It was tough to maintain and upgrade if it worked, but the package versions have been super simple.

[0]: https://www.gitlab.com/downloads/

This hasn't been mentioned it seems but I just used a turnkey vm (from http://www.turnkeylinux.org/) to setup Gitlab.

Looks like the vm is not the latest version but it was a painless install.

This is the way I'd prefer to use gitlab. KVM/Vmware/openvz instances are the way to go. I think they also have an amazon instance.

Been using gitlab for solo dev at work and at home for everything that needs tracking, not only coding. Like you, attempted an install and gave up and used bitnami in the end. The only disadvantage is that the bitnami installers are a few point releases behind.

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