Mobilizon is a free and federated platform for organizing events, which allows you to create your own events and have public or private discussions about them. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Mobilizon on Debian Latest.
Before we get started with the installation of Mobilizon, we need to update the system packages. You can do this by running the commands below:
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Next, we need to install some dependencies that Mobilizon requires. Run the commands below:
sudo apt install build-essential postgresql postgresql-contrib libpq-dev imagemagick ffmpeg libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev liboath-dev libicu-dev barcode libimage-exiftool-perl
Mobilizon is based on Ruby on Rails, so we need to install Ruby on our Debian server. To do this, we will use rbenv, a lightweight Ruby Version Manager. Run the commands below to install rbenv:
sudo apt install rbenv ruby-build
Next, configure rbenv by adding the following lines to your shell profile file:
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
Source your shell profile file for the changes to take effect:
source ~/.bashrc
To install Ruby, run the command below. This command will install the latest stable version of Ruby:
rbenv install 3.0.2
Set Ruby 3.0.2 as the default version for the system:
rbenv global 3.0.2
Mobilizon also requires Node.js for compiling JavaScript. To install Node.js, run the following command:
sudo apt install nodejs
Now that we have all the dependencies, we can proceed to clone the Mobilizon repository:
git clone https://framagit.org/framasoft/mobilizon.git
This command will clone the mobilizon directory to your current working directory.
After cloning the repository, navigate to the mobilizon directory:
cd mobilizon
Install the required gems with the following command:
gem install bundler
bundle install
Then, create the database and run the database migrations:
rake db:create
rake db:migrate
Finally, start the Mobilizon server:
rails server -b 0.0.0.0
You can now access Mobilizon by navigating to http://your_server_ip:3000 in your web browser.
In this tutorial, we demonstrated how to install Mobilizon on Debian Latest. You should now have Mobilizon up and running on your server. From here, you can start customizing your instance and creating events. Happy organizing!
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