Docspell is a powerful and free document management system. It allows you to manage and organize all of your documents in an efficient and user-friendly manner. Docspell is available for OpenBSD, and in this tutorial, we will show you how to install it on your system.
Before we can install Docspell, we need to make sure that Java is installed on our system. OpenBSD comes with OpenJDK pre-installed, but if you need to install Java, you can do so by running the following command:
$ doas pkg_add openjdk
This will install OpenJDK on your system.
Next, we need to download the latest version of Docspell from the official website. You can download the latest version of Docspell from https://docspell.org.
$ cd /tmp
$ ftp https://docspell.org/files/docspell-latest.tar.gz
Once you have downloaded the Docspell tarball, you need to extract it to the desired installation location. In this example, we will extract it to the /opt/docspell directory.
$ doas mkdir /opt/docspell
$ doas tar zxvf docspell-latest.tar.gz -C /opt/docspell --strip-components=1
Docspell requires a configuration file before it can be started. Create the necessary configuration files using the following command:
$ cd /opt/docspell/config
$ cp config.properties.sample config.properties
$ cp server.properties.sample server.properties
Finally, we can start Docspell by running the following command:
$ cd /opt/docspell
$ java -jar docspell.war
This will start the Docspell server on your system. You can now access Docspell by visiting http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Docspell on OpenBSD.
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