How to install Tania on Manjaro

Tania is a free and open-source farm management tool that helps farmers and growers to manage their crops, tasks, and resources efficiently. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Tania on Manjaro, a popular Linux distribution.

Prerequisites

• A Manjaro Linux system with sudo privileges.
• Docker and Docker Compose installed on the system.

Step 1: Install Docker and Docker Compose

First, we need to install Docker and Docker Compose using the Manjaro package manager. Open the terminal and run the following commands:

sudo pacman -S docker
sudo systemctl enable docker.service
sudo systemctl start docker.service

Now, let's install Docker Compose:

sudo pacman -S docker-compose

Step 2: Download Tania

We can download Tania from its official website or GitHub page. Here, we will download the latest stable release from the Tania Github page.

mkdir tania && cd tania
curl -L https://github.com/Tanibox/tania-core/releases/download/v1.5.2/tania-v1.5.2.zip -o tania.zip
unzip tania.zip

Step 3: Create a Docker network

Now, let's create a Docker network for Tania:

docker network create tania-network

Step 4: Create a .env file

Create a .env file in the tania/ directory and add the following configuration values:

TZ=Asia/Singapore
HOST_IP=127.0.0.1
TANIA_DB_HOST=tania-db
TANIA_DB_PORT=5432
TANIA_DB_NAME=tania
TANIA_DB_USER=tania
TANIA_DB_PASSWORD=password

Here, TZ is the timezone, HOST_IP is the IP address that Tania will be running on, and TANIA_DB_* are the database configuration values.

Step 5: Start the database

Start the Postgres database container by running the following command:

docker-compose -f tania/docker-compose.yml up -d tania-db

Step 6: Initialize the database

Run the following command to initialize the Tania database:

docker-compose -f tania/docker-compose.yml run --rm tania-server ./bin/initdb.sh

Step 7: Start Tania

Finally, start the Tania server by running the following command:

docker-compose -f tania/docker-compose.yml up -d tania-server

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to install Tania on Manjaro by installing Docker and Docker Compose, downloading Tania, configuring the .env file, starting the database container, initializing the database, and starting the Tania server.

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