Trac is a popular project management tool for software development teams. It offers a web-based interface for managing project tasks, bugs, and source code. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Trac on MXLinux.
Before you begin, you should have the following:
Trac is written in Python, so we need to install Python on our machine. Open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt install python3
Trac requires a web server to function. Apache is a popular web server and will work well with Trac. Run the following command to install Apache:
sudo apt install apache2
Trac is not available in the default MXLinux repositories, so we need to manually download and install it. Follow these steps:
Open a terminal and download the Trac package from the official website using the following command:
wget https://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/trac/Trac-1.4.3.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded package:
tar xvf Trac-1.4.3.tar.gz
Change the directory to the extracted package:
cd Trac-1.4.3
Install Trac using the command:
sudo python3 setup.py install
Now that we have installed Trac, we need to configure it. Follow these steps:
Create a directory for the Trac project:
sudo mkdir /var/trac
Create a new Trac project by running the following command:
sudo trac-admin /var/trac/myproject initenv
Replace myproject
with the name of your project.
Change the ownership of the project directory:
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/trac/myproject -R
Create a file called trac.fcgi
in the /var/trac/myproject/cgi-bin
directory:
sudo nano /var/trac/myproject/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi
Add the following lines to the trac.fcgi
file:
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
import sys
sys.path.append('/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages')
from trac.web.main import dispatch_request
dispatch_request()
Save and close the file.
We need to configure Apache to serve our Trac project. Follow these steps:
Create a new Apache2 configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/trac.conf
Add the following lines to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName yourdomain.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@yourdomain.com
DocumentRoot /var/trac/myproject/htdocs
AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
DirectoryIndex trac.fcgi
FCGIWrapper /var/trac/myproject/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi
<Directory "/var/trac/myproject/htdocs">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Replace yourdomain.com
with your actual domain name.
Save and close the file.
Enable the new configuration:
sudo a2ensite trac.conf
Reload Apache to apply the changes:
sudo service apache2 reload
You can now access your Trac project by navigating to http://yourdomain.com
in your web browser. Replace yourdomain.com
with your actual domain name. You should see the default Trac homepage.
In this tutorial, we have installed and configured Trac on MXLinux. You can now use Trac to manage your software development projects.
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