Traccar is a powerful and open-source GPS tracking system. It can track the locations of GPS-enabled devices in real-time or store the data in a central database for analysis. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Traccar on Debian, the latest version of the popular Linux distribution.
Since Traccar is written in Java, you will need to have Java installed on your system. The simplest way to do this is by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install default-jre
This will install the default version of Java available in the Debian repositories. To check if Java is installed, run the following command:
java -version
If you see information about the installed version of Java, then it is already installed.
Next, we need to download the Traccar installation package. Go to the Traccar website (https://www.traccar.org/download/) and select the appropriate version of Traccar. We recommend downloading the ZIP package for Linux.
wget https://github.com/traccar/traccar/releases/download/v4.12/traccar-linux-4.12.zip
Once the Traccar package has been downloaded, we need to extract it. Run the following command to extract it to the /opt/ directory:
sudo unzip traccar-linux-4.12.zip -d /opt/
To start Traccar, you can run the following command:
sudo /opt/traccar/bin/startDaemon.sh
This will start Traccar as a daemon process. To check if Traccar is running, you can run the following command:
sudo /opt/traccar/bin/traccar status
If Traccar is running, you should see something like this:
Traccar is running (pid 1234)
Once Traccar is running, you can access it from a web browser by going to http://<your-server-ip>:8082. You should see the Traccar login screen.
By default, the username is admin and the password is admin. You can change the password by going to the "Users" section of the Traccar web interface.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Traccar, a powerful and open-source GPS tracking system, on Debian, the latest version of the popular Linux distribution. Now that Traccar is running, you can start adding devices and tracking their locations in real-time!
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