farmOS is a web-based application for managing farm activities, assets, and data. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing farmOS on Manjaro, a popular Linux distribution.
To run farmOS, you need to have PHP and a few extensions installed on your Manjaro system. To do this, open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -S php php-gd php-curl php-pgsql mariadb
This command will install PHP, the PostgreSQL driver, and a few other extensions required by farmOS.
Next, you need to download the farmOS installation package from the official website. You can do this by visiting the farmOS download page at https://farmos.org/download.
Once you have downloaded the package, extract it into your web server's document root directory. For example, if you are using the Apache web server, the document root directory is usually located at /srv/http/. You can extract the farmOS package by running the following command:
sudo tar -xzf farmOS-VERSION.tar.gz -C /srv/http/
Replace VERSION in the command above with the version of farmOS you downloaded.
farmOS requires a PostgreSQL database to store its data. You can create a new database and user by running the following command:
sudo -u postgres createdb farmos
sudo -u postgres createuser -P farmos
You will be prompted to enter a password for the new user.
To configure farmOS, you need to copy the sites/default/default.settings.php file to sites/default/settings.php, and edit the latter file to include your database settings.
cd /srv/http/farmOS/
cp sites/default/default.settings.php sites/default/settings.php
nano sites/default/settings.php
In the settings.php file, search for the following lines and change the values to match your database settings:
$databases = array (
'default' =>
array (
'default' =>
array (
'database' => 'farmos',
'username' => 'farmos',
'password' => 'PASSWORD',
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => '',
'driver' => 'pgsql',
'prefix' => '',
),
),
);
Replace PASSWORD with the password you set for the farmos PostgreSQL user in Step 3.
You need to enable the Apache web server and MariaDB service to start automatically at boot time. Run the following commands in sequence to accomplish this:
sudo systemctl enable httpd
sudo systemctl start httpd
sudo systemctl enable mariadb
sudo systemctl start mariadb
Finally, open a web browser and browse to http://localhost/farmOS/ to verify that farmOS is installed and running properly. If everything is configured correctly, you should see the farmOS login screen.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install farmOS on Manjaro using Apache and PostgreSQL. With farmOS installed, you can now start managing your farm activities, assets, and data from a central location. Enjoy!
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