Mailchimp Open Commerce is a powerful e-commerce platform that helps you manage your online business. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Mailchimp Open Commerce on Arch Linux.
Before installing Mailchimp Open Commerce, we need to make sure our system packages are up to date. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
Mailchimp Open Commerce requires several dependencies to be installed on your system. We will install these dependencies using the pacman package manager.
sudo pacman -S git nodejs npm postgresql gcc make
Next, we will clone the Open Commerce repository to our local machine. We will use the git command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/mailchimp/opencommerce.git
After cloning the repository, we need to install Open Commerce. Navigate into the cloned directory and run the following command:
npm install
Mailchimp Open Commerce requires a PostgreSQL database to store its data. We will create a new database and user for Open Commerce to use.
sudo -i -u postgres
createdb opencommerce
createuser opencommerceuser
psql
alter user opencommerceuser with encrypted password 'mypassword';
grant all privileges on database opencommerce to opencommerceuser;
Open Commerce requires several environment variables to be set in order to function properly. We will create a new file called .env in the root directory of the Open Commerce repository and set the environment variables as follows:
DB_URL='postgres://opencommerceuser:mypassword@localhost:5432/opencommerce'
NODE_ENV='development'
Finally, we will start Open Commerce by running the following command:
npm run start:dev
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Mailchimp Open Commerce on your Arch Linux system.
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