CKAN is an open-source data management system that helps organizations and governments to manage and share data. In this tutorial, we will guide you to install CKAN on your Kali Linux latest version.
Before we start the installation process, please make sure to have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to ensure that your Kali Linux system is up to date. You can run the following command to update the system:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Now, we need to install the required dependencies for CKAN. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo apt-get install -y python-dev postgresql libpq-dev python-pip python-virtualenv git-core solr-jetty
After installing the required dependencies, let's create a Python virtual environment for CKAN. This will help to isolate the CKAN installation from other Python projects.
sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/ckan/default
sudo chown -Rf <your_user_name>:<your_user_name> /usr/lib/ckan/
sudo chmod u+rwx /usr/lib/ckan/
cd /usr/lib/ckan/
sudo virtualenv ckan
. /usr/lib/ckan/ckan/bin/activate
Now, we are ready to install CKAN using pip. This can be done by running the following command:
pip install -e git+https://github.com/ckan/ckan.git#egg=ckan
CKAN comes with many plugins that offer different functionalities such as authentication, authorization, and data visualization. You can install the required plugins according to your needs.
pip install -r /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/requirements.txt
CKAN extension helps to enhance the functionalities of CKAN. For example, the ckanext-spatial extension helps to enable spatial search in CKAN. You can install the required extension using the following commands:
cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src
git clone https://github.com/ckan/ckanext-spatial.git
cd ckanext-spatial
python setup.py develop
CKAN is installed now, and we need to configure it. You can edit the default configuration file '/etc/ckan/default/production.ini' according to your needs.
sudo cp /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/config/who.ini /etc/ckan/default/
sudo cp /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan/ckan/config/ckan.ini /etc/ckan/default/production.ini
sudo nano /etc/ckan/default/production.ini
CKAN needs Solr for search functionalities; we will start Solr using the following command:
sudo su - solr -c "java -jar /usr/share/solr/start.jar &"
Before using CKAN, we need to initialize the CKAN database. You can do this by running the following commands:
sudo su -c "cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan; paster db init -c /etc/ckan/default/production.ini" -s /bin/sh www-data
sudo su -c "cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan; paster --plugin=ckan user add admin email=admin@ckan.org name=admin -c /etc/ckan/default/production.ini" -s /bin/sh www-data
sudo su -c "cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan; paster --plugin=ckan sysadmin add admin -c /etc/ckan/default/production.ini" -s /bin/sh www-data
Finally, we can start CKAN using the following command:
sudo su -c "cd /usr/lib/ckan/default/src/ckan; paster serve /etc/ckan/default/production.ini" -s /bin/sh www-data
Congratulations! You have successfully installed CKAN on Kali Linux Latest. You can now access the CKAN web interface by entering 'localhost:5000' in your web browser.
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