Firefly III is a personal finance manager that helps you track your expenses and income, and give you insights on where your money goes. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Firefly III on Kali Linux Latest.
Before we start, please make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
First, we need to install the dependencies required by Firefly III. Open the terminal and execute the following command to install the dependencies:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php php-mbstring php-curl php-gd php-xml mysql-server mysql-client
Visit the Firefly III website at https://firefly-iii.org/ and download the latest version of Firefly III.
wget https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/releases/download/5.5.1/firefly-iii-5.5.1.zip
Extract the downloaded Firefly III file by running the following command:
unzip firefly-iii-5.5.1.zip
After extracting the file, move it to the web directory of your system using the following command:
sudo mv firefly-iii /var/www/html/firefly
Set the appropriate permissions for the Firefly III directory using the following command:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/firefly
Create a new database for Firefly III using MySQL. Open the MySQL shell by running the following command:
mysql -u root -p
Enter your MySQL root password when prompted. Once you're in the MySQL shell, create a new database using the following command:
CREATE DATABASE firefly;
Create a new user and grant privileges to the new database.
CREATE USER 'firefly'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON firefly.* TO 'firefly'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Open your web browser and go to http://localhost/firefly to start the Firefly III installation wizard.
Follow the on-screen instructions and provide your MySQL database details when prompted.
Once the installation is complete, you can login to Firefly III by opening http://localhost/firefly in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Firefly III on Kali Linux Latest. You can now start tracking your finances and making smart financial decisions.
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