Open Source POS is a point-of-sale system that can help you manage sales, inventory, and customers in your business. If you have Alpine Linux Latest installed and you want to install Open Source POS, then you can follow the steps below:
To install Open Source POS on Alpine Linux Latest, you need to install some dependencies first. Open a terminal and run the following command:
apk add --no-cache git php7 php7-fpm php7-mbstring php7-xml php7-gd php7-session php7-mcrypt php7-openssl php7-pdo_mysql php7-json
This command will install Git and PHP 7 along with some PHP extensions that are required to run Open Source POS.
Next, you need to clone the Open Source POS repository from GitHub. Use the following command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/opensourcepos/opensourcepos.git
This will create a new directory named opensourcepos in the current directory, which contains all the source code of Open Source POS.
Open Source POS requires PHP-FPM to run. You need to configure PHP-FPM to use the right user and group. To do this, edit the /etc/php7/php-fpm.d/www.conf file with a text editor and find the following lines:
user = nobody
group = nobody
Change the nobody to your username and group.
user = your_user_name
group = your_group_name
Save the file and exit the text editor.
Open Source POS needs a database to store all its data, so you need to configure the database connection settings. You can do this by copying the config.dist.php file to config.php and edit it with a text editor:
cd opensourcepos
cp config.dist.php config.php
Find the following lines in the config.php file and change them to match your database settings:
define('DB_TYPE', 'mysql'); // Database type (mysql)
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // Database hostname
define('DB_NAME', 'opensourcepos'); // Name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'your_username'); // Database username
define('DB_PASS', 'your_password'); // Database password
Save the file and exit the text editor.
Finally, you can install Open Source POS by running the following command:
php artisan run:install
This command will create the necessary database tables and insert some initial data. Once the installation is complete, you can start the PHP-FPM and web server to access the Open Source POS interface.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Open Source POS on Alpine Linux Latest. You also learned how to install its dependencies, clone its repository from GitHub, configure PHP-FPM, configure Open Source POS, and install it. Now you can start using Open Source POS to manage your business' sales, inventory, and customers.
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