Tutorial: How to Install Indico on EndeavourOS Latest

Introduction

Indico is an event management software for organizing conferences, workshops, and meetings. It is open-source and developed by the particle physics community. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Indico on EndeavourOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before starting, you need to have:

• A Linux server with EndeavourOS Latest installed
• Sudo or root access to the server
• A web browser to access the Indico web interface

Step 1: Install Required Dependencies

First, we need to install some required dependencies for Indico. Run the following command to update the system packages and install the prerequisites:

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S python python-pip python-virtualenv libffi libxml2 libxslt openssl postgresql postgresql-libs postgresql-libs --needed

Step 2: Create Indico User and Database

Next, we need to create a PostgreSQL user and database for Indico. Run the following commands to create a database and user:

sudo -i -u postgres
createuser -P indico
createdb -O indico indico
exit

Step 3: Download and Extract Indico

Download the latest version of Indico from the official website (https://getindico.io/) or execute the following commands:

curl -O https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/13/f4/710a81861b34ad3899217d8bde5c5d5b5a3b5e50cdf407136aff9dcb01ef/indico-3.1.1.tar.gz

After the download is complete, extract the package into a directory:

tar zxvf indico-3.1.1.tar.gz
mv indico-3.1.1 indico

Step 4: Setup Indico

We will now set up Indico by creating and activating a virtual environment:

cd indico
virtualenv -p python2 indicoenv
source indicoenv/bin/activate

Next, install the requirements:

pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
pip install -U indico

Step 5: Configure Indico

Once the installation is complete, we need to configure Indico by generating a configuration file and setting up database settings.

Generate the configuration file:

indico setup create_conf

Edit the Indico configuration file:

nano /opt/indico/etc/indico.conf

In this file, find the SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI line and replace it with the following line:

SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = postgresql://indico:<password>@localhost/indico

Replace <password> with the password you set for the PostgreSQL user during Step 2.

Step 6: Start Indico

Start the Indico web server:

indico run

You should see the following message:

 * Running on http://127.0.0.1:8000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Step 7: Access Indico Web Interface

Open your web browser and navigate to http://your-server-ip:8000/. You should see the Indico web interface. You can log in with the administrator account using the default credentials (admin for both the username and password).

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to install Indico on EndeavourOS Latest. We installed the required dependencies, created a PostgreSQL user and database, downloaded and extracted Indico, set up Indico, and accessed the Indico web interface.

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