KitchenOwl is a recipe management system that helps you plan your meals, create shopping lists, and discover new recipes. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install KitchenOwl on the latest Debian distribution.
Before installing KitchenOwl, there are a few dependencies that need to be installed. Open the terminal on your Debian server and enter the following command to install the necessary packages:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install git python3 python3-pip python3-venv python3-dev libpq-dev postgresql
This command will install Git, Python 3, pip, and several additional libraries and tools needed for KitchenOwl.
The next step is to clone KitchenOwl's official repository from GitHub. Enter the following command in your terminal:
git clone https://github.com/tombursch/kitchenowl.git
This command will clone the repository to a kitchenowl directory in your current working directory.
Creating a virtual environment is recommended to manage the dependencies required by KitchenOwl. In the terminal, navigate to the kitchenowl directory and enter the following command:
python3 -m venv env
This command will create a virtual environment named env in the kitchenowl directory.
To activate the virtual environment, enter the following command in the terminal:
source env/bin/activate
This command will activate the virtual environment, and you'll notice that the terminal prompt has changed to reflect the name of the environment.
In the activated virtual environment, enter the following command to install the required Python packages:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
This command will install all the dependencies that KitchenOwl requires.
Next, we need to configure the database for KitchenOwl. The easiest way to do this is to create a new PostgreSQL database and user. To do this, enter the following commands in the terminal:
sudo -u postgres psql
This command will log you into the PostgreSQL server. In the postgres prompt, enter the following:
CREATE DATABASE kitchenowl;
CREATE USER kitchenowluser WITH PASSWORD 'your-password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE kitchenowl TO kitchenowluser;
In the above command, replace your-password with your desired password.
To run KitchenOwl, we need to create a configuration file. In the kitchenowl directory, rename the example.config.yaml file to config.yaml:
mv example.config.yaml config.yaml
Edit the newly created config.yaml file and update the database information with the username, password, and database name.
postgres:
user: kitchenowluser
password: your-password
host: localhost
dbname: kitchenowl
port: 5432
Save and close the file.
Finally, it's time to run KitchenOwl. In the activated virtual environment, enter the following command:
python3 app.py
This command will run the Flask development server, and you'll see output similar to the following:
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
Open your web browser and navigate to http://127.0.0.1:5000. You should see KitchenOwl's login page.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install KitchenOwl on Debian Latest. Now you can start exploring KitchenOwl and managing your recipes like a pro!
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