In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Mailman on Clear Linux. Mailman is a software tool that allows you to manage mailing lists and email newsletters.
We assume that you have a basic understanding of Linux and Clear Linux.
Before we start installing Mailman, let's make sure our Clear Linux system is up to date.
sudo swupd update
sudo swupd upgrade
Mailman has several dependencies that we need to install before we can install Mailman itself.
sudo swupd bundle-add python3 basic-dev python3-basic python3-pip
sudo pip3 install virtualenv
Now that we have installed the Mailman dependencies, we can download and extract the Mailman source code.
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailman/mailman-2.1.31.tgz
tar xvzf mailman-2.1.31.tgz
To avoid any conflicts with other Python packages installed on our system, we will create a virtual environment for Mailman.
cd mailman-2.1.31
virtualenv --python=python3 mailman-env
source mailman-env/bin/activate
Now that we have a virtual environment for Mailman, we can use pip to install Mailman.
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install
After installing Mailman, we need to configure it. The configuration file is located at /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py, and we can edit it using any text editor.
sudo nano /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
In the configuration file, we need to change the following lines:
DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'example.com'
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'example.com'
Replace "example.com" with your own domain name.
Finally, we can start Mailman.
sudo /usr/local/mailman/bin/mailmanctl start
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Mailman on Clear Linux by downloading the source code and installing the required dependencies. We have then created a virtual environment for Mailman, installed it, configured it, and started it. Now you can use Mailman to manage your mailing lists and email newsletters on Clear Linux.
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