Vikunja is a self-hosted task management tool that is written in Go. It is designed to help you keep track of tasks, set deadlines, and organize your work on projects. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install Vikunja on Arch Linux.
Before we begin, it is assumed that you have the following:
To run and install Vikunja, you will need to install the following dependencies:
sudo pacman -S git go nodejs npm postgresql
Next, we'll clone the Vikunja repository from GitHub using git. Run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/vikunja/vikunja.git
This will clone the project's source code into the current directory.
In this step, we'll build and run Vikunja using go.
First, navigate to the cloned repository directory:
cd vikunja
Now we can start the PostgreSQL server:
sudo systemctl start postgresql
Next, create a new PostgreSQL user, database, and set a password for the user:
sudo -iu postgres
createdb vikunja
createuser vikunja_user
psql
ALTER USER vikunja_user WITH PASSWORD 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE vikunja TO vikunja_user;
q
After that, you can exit the PostgreSQL prompt using q.
Now we can build and run Vikunja:
go run cmd/vikunja/main.go -tasks=postgresql -db-url=postgres://vikunja_user:password@localhost:5432/vikunja
This will launch Vikunja. You can access it by navigating to http://localhost:3456 on your web browser.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Vikunja on Arch Linux. You should now have a running instance of Vikunja that is ready for use.
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