Tracim is an open-source collaborative tool that helps to organize teams' work, share documents and ideas, and follow up on discussions. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Tracim on Debian.
Before starting, make sure that your system is up-to-date:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Tracim requires some dependencies to be installed on the system. In this step, we will install the required dependencies.
sudo apt install -y python3 python3-dev python3-venv \
build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev libxml2-dev \
libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev gettext curl
Tracim requires PostgreSQL as its database. In this step, we will install PostgreSQL.
sudo apt install -y postgresql postgresql-contrib
After installing PostgreSQL, you need to create a new user and database for Tracim.
sudo su - postgres
createuser -P tracim
createdb -O tracim tracim_db
exit
Now that we have installed the required dependencies and created the database, we will proceed to install Tracim.
First, clone the Tracim repository from GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/tracim/tracim.git
Navigate to the cloned directory and create a Python virtual environment:
cd tracim
python3 -m venv env
Activate the virtual environment:
source env/bin/activate
Install Tracim requirements:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Copy the sample configuration file and edit it with your own settings:
cp tracim/default.cfg tracim/production.cfg
nano tracim/production.cfg
Change the database connection settings in the configuration file:
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'postgresql+psycopg2://tracim:YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE@localhost/tracim_db'
Initialize the database:
python manage.py initdb
Run Tracim:
python manage.py runserver
Tracim will now be accessible at http://localhost:5000.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Tracim on Debian. You can now use Tracim to organize your team's work and collaborate on projects.
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