Installing LMS on Debian Latest

Prerequisites

Before you start, ensure that your system meets the following requirements:

• Debian Latest
• Python 3.5 or higher
• Pip (Python Package Installer)
• Git (to clone LMS from GitHub)

You can check your Python version by running the following command in the terminal:

python3 --version

To install pip and git, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install python3-pip git

Installing LMS

1. Clone the LMS repository from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/epoupon/lms.git

2. Change the working directory to lms:

cd lms

3. Create a virtual environment for LMS:

python3 -m venv lms-env

4. Activate the virtual environment:

source lms-env/bin/activate

5. Install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

6. Create a database for LMS:

python manage.py migrate

7. (Optional) Load sample data into the database:

python manage.py loaddata lms/fixtures/sample_data.json

8. Create a superuser account:

python manage.py createsuperuser

9. Start the LMS server:

python manage.py runserver

You should now be able to access LMS by visiting http://localhost:8000 in your web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install LMS on Debian Latest. You should now be able to use LMS for managing your e-learning courses.

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