This tutorial will take you through the process of installing Roundcube on Arch Linux. Roundcube is a webmail client that you can use to access your emails.
Before you begin, make sure you have the following:
Roundcube needs a web server to run. We will use Apache for this purpose. Install Apache by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S apache
Roundcube is a PHP application, so we need to install PHP as well. Install PHP by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S php php-apache
Roundcube needs a database to store data. We will use MariaDB for this purpose. Install MariaDB by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S mariadb
After installing MariaDB, we need to create a database and user for Roundcube. Follow these steps:
Log in to MariaDB by running the following command:
sudo mysql -u root
Create a database for Roundcube:
CREATE DATABASE roundcubedb;
Create a user for Roundcube:
CREATE USER 'roundcubeuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Replace "password" with a secure password that you choose.
Grant privileges to the user for the Roundcube database:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON roundcubedb.* TO 'roundcubeuser'@'localhost';
Exit MariaDB:
EXIT;
Now we can download and install Roundcube.
Go to https://roundcube.net/download/ and download the latest stable release of Roundcube.
Extract the downloaded archive into the Apache web root directory:
sudo tar xf roundcubemail-x.y.z.tar.gz -C /srv/http/
Replace "x.y.z" with the version number of the downloaded release.
Rename the extracted directory to "roundcube":
sudo mv /srv/http/roundcubemail-x.y.z /srv/http/roundcube
Change the ownership of the "roundcube" directory to the Apache user:
sudo chown -R http:http /srv/http/roundcube
We need to configure Roundcube to use the MariaDB database that we created in Step 4.
Open the Roundcube configuration file in a text editor:
sudo nano /srv/http/roundcube/config/config.inc.php
Find the following lines in the file:
$config['db_dsnw'] = 'sqlite:////var/local/roundcube/db/roundcube.db';
Replace the lines with the following:
$config['db_dsnw'] = 'mysql://roundcubeuser:password@localhost/roundcubedb';
Replace "password" with the password that you chose in Step 4.
Save the file and exit the text editor.
Now we need to enable and start Apache and MariaDB services so that they automatically start at boot time:
sudo systemctl enable httpd mariadb
sudo systemctl start httpd mariadb
Open a web browser and go to http://localhost/roundcube/. You should see the Roundcube login screen.
Enter your email address and password to log in to Roundcube.
You have successfully installed Roundcube on Arch Linux! You can now use Roundcube to access your email through a web interface.
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