Installing Kallithea on EndeavourOS Latest

Kallithea is a free and open source software management tool that provides a web interface to manage git, mercurial repositories, and Subversion. In this tutorial, we will discuss the process of installing Kallithea on EndeavourOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with the installation process of Kallithea, ensure that you have a user account with sudo privileges and have updated the system to its latest version. If you do not have an updated version of EndeavourOS, first update your system using the following command:

$ sudo pacman -Syu

Step 1: Install required dependencies

To begin with, we need to install the required dependencies for Kallithea. Open a terminal and execute the following command:

$ sudo pacman -S git python python-setuptools python2 python2-setuptools 

Step 2: Install Kallithea

After installing the required dependencies, we can proceed with the installation of Kallithea. We can install Kallithea by downloading its source code from GitHub and then installing it by running the setup.py script.

1. Clone the Kallithea source code to a temporary directory:

cd /tmp/
git clone https://github.com/kallithea/kallithea.git

2. Change to the Kallithea directory and then run the setup.py script:

cd kallithea/
sudo python setup.py install

3. After installation is complete, generate a Kallithea configuration file using the following command:

sudo kallithea-cli config-create /etc/kallithea/kallithea.ini

Step 3: Configure Kallithea

Once the configuration file is generated, we can configure Kallithea.

1. Open the configuration file with your preferred editor, such as vim or nano:

sudo vim /etc/kallithea/kallithea.ini

2. Update the content of the configuration file according to your requirements, such as changing the hostname, port, database credentials, and other settings. Once you have edited the configuration file, save and close the file.

[server:main]
use = egg:gunicorn
host = 0.0.0.0
port = 8080
workers = 4

[app:main]
use = egg:kallithea#main
kallithea.config_file = %(here)s/kallithea.ini
kallithea.db.url = postgresql://kallithea:kallithea@localhost/kallithea

Step 4: Start Kallithea

After configuring Kallithea, we can start it using the following command:

sudo kallithea-cli serve /etc/kallithea/kallithea.ini

The above command will start Kallithea on your local machine, and you can access it via the URL: http://localhost:8080.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to install Kallithea on EndeavourOS Latest. Kallithea is a powerful and feature-rich software management tool that provides an easy to use web interface to manage git and mercurial repositories. We hope that this tutorial helps you get started with Kallithea and manage your projects in a simple and effective way.

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