How to Install Redmine on Linux Mint Latest

Redmine is a flexible and versatile project management tool that is used by many people worldwide. It is designed to help you manage your projects and track your progress in a more efficient manner. If you want to install Redmine on your Linux Mint Latest machine, then follow the steps below.

Prerequisites

Before we start installing Redmine on Linux Mint Latest, you need to meet the following requirements:

• A Linux Mint Latest machine
• sudo user access
• Installed LAMP stack

Step 1: Install Required Packages

First, we need to install some packages that are required for the Redmine installation. Open your terminal and execute the following commands.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential ruby ruby-dev libsqlite3-dev zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev

Step 2: Install Redmine

After installing the required packages, let's proceed to install Redmine. You can download the latest version of Redmine from the official website of Redmine. Firstly, go to the Redmine directory using the following command:

cd /var/www/html

Then, download the latest version of Redmine by executing the following command:

wget https://www.redmine.org/releases/redmine-4.2.3.tar.gz

Extract the downloaded file to the Apache document root directory by running this command:

tar -xvzf redmine-4.2.3.tar.gz

Rename the extracted folder to redmine:

mv redmine-4.2.3 redmine

Step 3: Configure Database

Redmine uses a database to store the data, so now we need to configure the database. In this tutorial, we will use MariaDB.

Install MariaDB:

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server mariadb-client

Login using the following command:

sudo mysql

Create a new database for the Redmine installation:

CREATE DATABASE redmine character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

Create a new user and provide all the privileges on this database:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON redmine.* TO 'redmine_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Exit from the MariaDB shell:

exit

Step 4: Configure Redmine

Now, we need to configure the Redmine application. This can be done by creating a configuration file database.yml inside the config directory. To do this, navigate to the redmine directory and copy the sample configuration file to the config directory.

cp database.yml.example database.yml```

Edit the database.yml file and update the database credentials that we configured in Step 3.

production: adapter: mysql2 database: redmine host: localhost username: redmine_user password: password encoding: utf8mb4

After editing, save and close the file.

## Step 5: Install Required Gems

Redmine uses Ruby on Rails, so we need to install the required gems.

```cd /var/www/html/redmine
sudo gem install bundler
sudo bundle install```

## Step 6: Migrate the Database

After installing the required gems, let's migrate the database. Run the following command to migrate it.

```sudo bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production```

## Step 7: Start Redmine

Let's start the Redmine application by running the following command:

```sudo rails server -e production```

Redmine will run on port 3000. You can now access Redmine by visiting the following URL in your web browser:

```http://your_server_ip_address:3000```

## Conclusion

That's it! You have successfully installed Redmine on your Linux Mint Latest machine. You can now start managing your projects efficiently with Redmine.

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