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How to install what you need to run the command bundle exec jekyll serve in Linux Mint

If you have to run the command “bundle exec jekyll serve” in Linux Mint Install Ruby Install the GNU Compiler Collection Nokogiri needs zlib Summary table That’s all, I hope If you have to run the command “bundle exec jekyll serve” in Linux Mint I’ve repeatedly had to run a series of installations in Linux Mint to make the bundle exec jekyll serve command working. The possibility to test your Jekyll static sites locally before pushing them on GitHub is really useful. But the basic Linux Mint installation lacks some important pieces of code. So not only do you have to install the Ruby language but also some other piece of code needed for the system to work. After browsing the web several times to collect the instructions I decided to consolidate them into a single post. Now I am on Mint 19.3 Cinnamon edition. Install Ruby The first step is to install Ruby . The easie...

Table Of Contents (TOC), from Org-Mode to Jekyll

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My Table of Contents What’s a Table Of Contents and why using it? Emacs Org-Mode and the autogenerated TOC Minimal-Mistakes over Jekyll provides an automatic TOC What’s a Table Of Contents and why using it? A Table Of Contents (“TOC”) is an index of a document’s content. In the world wide web environment it’s usually a list of chapter and sub-chapter headings in the online articles. Why using it? Obviously: the TOC can give you an overview of the documents’ structure, so you can quickly jump where you’re interested, without spending time reading the rest of the document. As a not-developer writer in GitHub of some posts, I’d like a simple and fast system to get the TOC of my articles. Emacs Org-Mode and the autogenerated TOC An excellent resource to generate a TOC is offered by Emacs with its extraordinary Org-Mode : if you write structure...