Hakatime is a simple, lightweight and easy-to-use time tracking application designed for developers. It helps you monitor the time you spend coding and provides you with detailed reports on your productivity. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Hakatime on MX Linux latest version.
Before we begin, we need to ensure that we have the following requirements:
Once we have these requirements, we can proceed with these steps:
Hakatime is built using Python and requires several dependencies to be installed on your system. To install these dependencies, open a terminal and run the following commands:
$ sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip libpq-dev python3-dev
$ sudo pip3 install virtualenv
Next, we need to create a virtual environment for Hakatime. This is a good practice as it helps to keep our system clean and prevents conflicts with other Python packages. To create a new virtual environment, run the following commands:
$ mkdir hakatime
$ cd hakatime
$ virtualenv .venv
This will create a new directory called hakatime and initialize a new virtual environment inside it called .venv.
Now that we have created our virtual environment, we need to activate it. To do this, run the following command:
$ source .venv/bin/activate
This will activate the virtual environment and change your terminal prompt to indicate that you are now working inside the virtual environment.
The next step is to download and configure Hakatime. To do this, run the following commands:
$ git clone https://github.com/mujx/hakatime.git
$ cd hakatime
$ cp .env.example .env
$ nano .env
This will download the Hakatime source code from GitHub, navigate to the hakatime directory, create a copy of the .env.example file, and then open the .env file for editing using the nano text editor.
Inside the .env file, you will need to configure the following settings:
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://hakatime:password@localhost/hakatime
SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key_here
Replace your_secret_key_here with a secret key of your choice. This key is used to encrypt session data and should be kept secret. You can generate a new secret key by running the following command:
$ python3 -c "import os; print(os.urandom(24).hex())"
Once you have configured the settings, save and exit the file.
Now that we have configured Hakatime, we can install it by running the following commands:
$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$ python3 manage.py migrate
$ python3 manage.py createsuperuser
The first command installs all the required Python packages listed in the requirements.txt file. The second command initializes the database by creating all the required tables. The third command creates a new superuser account that you can use to log into the Hakatime web interface.
Finally, we can start Hakatime by running the following command:
$ python3 manage.py runserver
This will start the Hakatime web server and make it accessible at http://127.0.0.1:8000. Open a web browser and navigate to this address to access the Hakatime web interface.
You can use your superuser account to log in and start tracking your time spent coding.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Hakatime on MX Linux latest version. We hope that this has been useful and that you are now able to use Hakatime to track your time spent coding.
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