How to Install Kanboard on Manjaro

Kanboard is a free and open-source project management tool that is designed to help teams organize projects and tasks efficiently. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Kanboard on Manjaro.

Prerequisites

Before starting with the installation of Kanboard on Manjaro, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:

• A Manjaro system with sudo access.
• LAMP stack (Apache, MariaDB, and PHP) installed on your system.
• Composer installed on your Manjaro system.

Step 1: Install dependencies

To install Kanboard on Manjaro, you need to install some dependencies. To do that, open the terminal and run the following command:

sudo pacman -S git php-gd php-intl php-mbstring php-pear php-pgsql

Step 2: Clone the Kanboard repository

In this step, you need to clone the Kanboard repository to your local Manjaro system by running the following command on the terminal:

sudo git clone https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard.git /var/www/html/kanboard

After running the above command, give the appropriate file permissions to the Kanboard directory by running the following command:

sudo chown -R http:http /var/www/html/kanboard

Step 3: Install Composer dependencies

To install Composer dependencies for Kanboard, navigate to the Kanboard root directory by running the following command:

cd /var/www/html/kanboard

Then, install the Kanboard dependencies by running the following command:

sudo composer --no-dev --prefer-dist install

Step 4: Create a Virtual Host

To access Kanboard from a web browser, you need to create a virtual host on Apache. Run the following command to create a virtual host configuration file:

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/extra/kanboard.conf

Then, paste the below code to the configuration file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@kanboard.local
    DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/kanboard"
    ServerName kanboard.local
    ServerAlias www.kanboard.local
    <Directory "/var/www/html/kanboard">
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

After pasting the code, save and exit the file by pressing Ctrl+X, then Y, and then Enter.

Step 5: Start Apache and MariaDB

In this step, start Apache and MariaDB service by running the following command:

sudo systemctl start httpd mariadb

Step 6: Create a MariaDB user and database

To create a MariaDB user and database for Kanboard, run the following command:

sudo mysql -u root -p

After running the above command, enter the MariaDB root user password when prompted, and then run the following commands:

CREATE DATABASE kanboard CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON kanboard.* TO 'kanboarduser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Replace the new_password_here with a secure password, and then exit MariaDB by running the following command:

exit;

Step 7: Install Kanboard

To install Kanboard on Manjaro, open your web browser and access the following URL:

http://kanboard.local/

Then, follow the on-screen instructions to set up Kanboard. When prompted for a database, enter the following details:

• Database driver: PostgreSQL
• Database host: localhost
• Database name: kanboard
• Database username: kanboarduser
• Database password: new_password_here

After completing the setup, reload Apache service by running the following command:

sudo systemctl reload httpd

Conclusion

Kanboard is now installed on your Manjaro system. You can access the Kanboard dashboard by entering the http://kanboard.local/ URL in your web browser.

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