LedgerSMB is an open-source business software for managing accounting, invoicing, inventory and more. If you want to use it on Alpine Linux, follow these steps:
Before you proceed with the installation of LedgerSMB, make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your system:
LedgerSMB requires a PostgreSQL database server to store its data. Therefore, we need to install PostgreSQL first. Run the following command to install PostgreSQL:
sudo apk add postgresql postgresql-client
Next, we need to create a PostgreSQL user and database for LedgerSMB. Run the following command to create a user, replace your_user and your_password with the username and password you want:
sudo su postgres
psql -c "CREATE USER your_user WITH PASSWORD 'your_password';"
Then we can create a database with the following command, replacing your_database with the name of your database:
createdb your_database -O your_user
Now we can proceed with the installation of LedgerSMB. Run the following command to download and install it:
sudo apk add ledgersmb
After the installation, we need to initialize LedgerSMB. Run the following command to create a configuration file:
sudo /usr/lib/ledgersmb/ledgersmb-setup.pl
Follow the prompts to configure the database connection, email settings and other options.
Once you have completed the configuration, you can access LedgerSMB by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost/ledgersmb. Use the username and password you set up earlier to log in.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed LedgerSMB on Alpine Linux!
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