Trac is an open-source project management system where you can track progress, manage tickets, and collaborate with other team members. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of Trac on Linux Mint.
To follow this tutorial, you need to ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
Before proceeding with the Trac installation, ensure that your Linux Mint is up to date. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Trac requires some dependencies to be installed on the system, execute the following command to install these dependencies:
sudo apt install python-setuptools python-dev python-pygments python-tz python-genshi python-babel python-pysqlite2 python-imaging python-pyldap python-pyopenssl
Now that the prerequisites are installed, we can proceed to install Trac. Run the following command to download and install the latest version of Trac:
sudo easy_install -U trac
To start using Trac, we need to create and set up a new environment. To create a new Trac environment, run the following command:
sudo mkdir -p /var/trac/project
sudo trac-admin /var/trac/project initenv
After creating a new environment, we need to configure it. Run the following command to configure the Trac environment:
sudo nano /var/trac/project/conf/trac.ini
Once the file is open, update the settings according to your requirements, such as the project name, database path, SMTP server, and email configuration. Save and close the file.
To test if the Trac installation was successful, run the following command to start the built-in Trac web server:
sudo tracd -p 8000 /var/trac/project
After running this command, open up a web browser and navigate to the following URL:
http://YourServerIPAddress:8000
If everything went smoothly, you will see the default Trac web page.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Trac on Linux Mint. You can now create and manage your projects using Trac.
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