This tutorial will guide you through the installation process of Postorius on Arch Linux. Postorius is a Django-based web user interface for the GNU Mailman email management software.
Before we start, make sure that:
First, create a virtual environment for Postorius to isolate its dependencies from the rest of the system.
Open a terminal, and run the following commands:
sudo pacman -S python-virtualenv
mkdir ~/postorius-env
cd ~/postorius-env
virtualenv postorius-env
Activate the virtual environment with the following command:
source postorius-env/bin/activate
After you have created your virtual environment, you can now install Postorius. To do that, run the following command:
pip install postorius
This will install Postorius and all its dependencies.
Once you have installed Postorius, you need to configure it to work with Mailman.
To do that, you need to modify the configuration file, which is located in:
~/postorius-env/postorius-env/lib/python3.8/site-packages/postorius/settings.py
Use your favorite text editor to open this file, and find the following lines:
MAILMAN_REST_API_URL = 'http://localhost:8001/3.1/' # Mailman API endpoint URL
MAILMAN_ARCHIVER_URL = 'http://localhost:8003/' # Mailman Archiver URL
Replace the http://localhost:8001/3.1/ and http://localhost:8003/ URLs with the appropriate Mailman REST API and Archiver URLs for your system.
Save the changes to the file and exit your text editor.
You are now ready to launch Postorius.
To do that, run the following command:
python -m postorius
This will start the Postorius development server, which you can access by opening your web browser and navigate to:
http://localhost:8000/lists/
You will be prompted to log in with your email address and password.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Postorius on Arch Linux.
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