How to Install Family Accounting Tool on OpenBSD

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Family Accounting Tool (FACTO) on OpenBSD. Please follow the steps below:

1. First, make sure that you have a working OpenBSD installation.

2. Open the terminal on your OpenBSD machine.

3. Install the required dependencies:

sudo pkg_add py3-pip postgresql-server postgresql-contrib

4. Clone the FACTO repository:

git clone https://github.com/nymanjens/facto.git

5. Go to the fact directory:

cd facto

6. Install the required Python packages by running:

sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt

7. Create a PostgreSQL database:

sudo su - _postgresql

initdb -D /var/postgresql/data -E UTF8

createuser factuser

createdb factdb

8. Edit the PostgreSQL configuration file:

sudo vi /var/postgresql/data/postgresql.conf

Uncomment and change the following line:

#listen_addresses = 'localhost' 

to

listen_addresses = '*' 

9. Edit the pg_hba.conf file:

sudo vi /var/postgresql/data/pg_hba.conf

Add the following line at the end:

host all all 0.0.0.0/0 password

10. Restart the PostgreSQL server:

sudo rcctl restart postgresql

11. Create the database tables:

./manage.py makemigrations

./manage.py migrate

12. Create a superuser:

./manage.py createsuperuser

13. Run the server:

./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

14. Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8000/admin/ to access the app.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed FACTO on your OpenBSD machine.

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