Mayan EDMS is a free and open-source document management system that allows users to store, manage, and share electronic documents. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Mayan EDMS on Arch Linux.
Mayan EDMS requires some dependencies to be installed on the system before installation. Open the terminal and run the following command to install them:
sudo pacman -S python python-pip python-virtualenv libjpeg-turbo
Mayan EDMS should be installed in a virtual environment, so it doesn't conflict with other Python packages on your system. Create a virtual environment for Mayan EDMS by running the following commands:
mkdir ~/venv
virtualenv ~/venv/mayan-edms
Activate the virtual environment we just created running the following command:
source ~/venv/mayan-edms/bin/activate
To install Mayan EDMS, run the following command:
pip install -U mayan-edms
Create a directory to store configuration files of Mayan EDMS running the following command:
mkdir ~/.mayan
Now, create the configuration file with the following command:
mayan-edms.py initialsetup --force --timezone=America/New_York --user=admin --password=password
This command will create the settings/local.py file with some default values, including a default superuser for Mayan EDMS.
Finally, run the Mayan EDMS server by running the following command:
mayan-edms.py runserver
The server should now be running, and you can access it by typing http://localhost:8000 in your web browser.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Mayan EDMS on Arch Linux. Mayan EDMS is an excellent tool for managing electronic documents, and it provides a powerful set of features to help you manage your documents.
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