How to Install Tracim on Alpine Linux Latest

Tracim is an open-source web-based collaborative document management system that facilitates document sharing and collaboration. This tutorial will guide you through the steps to install Tracim on Alpine Linux Latest.

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have the following:

• A system running Alpine Linux Latest
• A non-root user with sudo privileges

Step 1: Update System

First, update the packages index and upgrade the installed packages to their latest versions:

sudo apk update
sudo apk upgrade

Step 2: Install Required Dependencies

Tracim requires several dependencies to be installed on your system. To install these dependencies, run the following command:

sudo apk add --no-cache \
   python3 \
   postgresql-client \
   postgresql-libs \
   libxml2-dev \
   libxslt-dev \
   py3-setuptools \
   py3-wheel \
   py3-cffi \
   py3-pillow \
   py3-psycopg2 \
   build-base \
   gcc \
   abuild \
   musl-dev \
   zlib-dev \
   libffi-dev \
   wget \
   imagemagick6-dev \
   xmlsec-dev

Step 3: Download and Extract Tracim

Next, download the latest version of Tracim from its official GitHub repository using the following command:

wget https://github.com/tracim/tracim/archive/v2.1.1.tar.gz

After the download completes, extract the downloaded archive:

tar -xf v2.1.1.tar.gz

This will create a new directory named tracim-2.1.1.

Step 4: Install Tracim

To install Tracim, navigate to the extracted directory and run the following commands:

cd tracim-2.1.1
sudo python3 setup.py install

Step 5: Configure Tracim

Tracim needs to be configured before it can be used. To configure it, create a configuration file using the following command:

sudo cp production.ini.sample production.ini

Edit the production.ini file and set the appropriate values for the following parameters:

• sqlalchemy.url: The URL to your PostgreSQL database.
• tm.secret_key: A secret key for the application.
• tm.smtp.host: The hostname of your SMTP server.
• tm.smtp.port: The port of your SMTP server.
• tm.smtp.start_tls: Whether to use TLS encryption for SMTP.
• tm.smtp.user: The username for your SMTP server.
• tm.smtp.password: The password for your SMTP server.

Save and close the file.

Step 6: Start Tracim

To start Tracim, run the following command:

pserve production.ini --reload

This will start the Tracim server. You can access Tracim by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:6543/.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Tracim on Alpine Linux Latest. Now you can start using Tracim to collaborate and share documents with your team.

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