Citadel is an open-source messaging and collaboration platform that provides a complete email, calendar, and address book system for your organization. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Citadel on Arch Linux.
Before you start, make sure your system is updated to the latest version of Arch Linux. Additionally, you must have sudo access to execute commands on your system.
We need to install some dependencies before installing Citadel. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -S expat postgresql curl openssl dovecot
This command will install the required packages on your system needed to run Citadel.
To download Citadel, go to the Citadel website and download the latest stable release of Citadel.
Once the download is complete, extract the archive to your home directory.
tar -xf citadel-x.y.z.tar.gz
Replace x.y.z with the version you downloaded.
Now that we have downloaded Citadel, we can proceed with the installation. Change the current directory to the extracted folder.
cd citadel-x.y.z
Replace x.y.z with the version you downloaded.
To start the installation process, run the following command:
./configure --with-postgresql --with-dovecot
This command will configure Citadel with PostgreSQL and Dovecot options.
After the configuration process is finished, run the following command to start compiling the application:
make
Once the installation is complete, run the following command to install the application:
sudo make install
Before we can start the Citadel service, we need to configure it. To do this, run the configuration wizard:
sudo /usr/local/sbin/setup
The configuration wizard will ask you to enter the domain name for your Citadel server, the administrator email address and password, and SMTP server information. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the setup.
To start the Citadel service, run the following command:
sudo systemctl start citadel
The service will start, and you can access the Citadel web interface at https://your-domain.com:50443.
That’s it! You have successfully installed and configured Citadel on your Arch Linux system. With Citadel, you can easily manage your organization's email, calendar, and address book system in a secure and efficient way.
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