How to Install Focalboard on OpenBSD

Focalboard is a management platform that aims to streamline teamwork efforts. It's open-source and self-hosted, making it an excellent alternative to Trello, Asana, and others.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install Focalboard on an OpenBSD server.

Prerequisites

Before getting started, ensure that you have:

• An OpenBSD server with root access
• A user account with sudo privileges

Step 1: Install Go

To install Focalboard, you need to have Go programming language installed. Here's how to install it on OpenBSD:

1. Access the terminal and login to your server as root.
2. Run the following command to update the OpenBSD package database:

# pkg_add -u

3. Run the following command to install Go:

# pkg_add go

4. Once it’s installed, verify that it’s working. Run the following command to check the Go version:

# go version

Step 2: Download Focalboard

1. There are two ways to download Focalboard: using Git or downloading the ZIP file. In this tutorial, we'll download Focalboard using Git.

2. Run the following command to clone the Focalboard Git repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard.git

Step 3: Build and Run Focalboard

1. Navigate to the Focalboard installation directory you cloned in Step 2:

$ cd focalboard

2. Run the following command to build the Focalboard binary:

$ go build -o ./bin/focalboard ./cmd/focalboard/main.go

3. Once the binary is built, you can run Focalboard by executing the following command:

$ sudo ./bin/focalboard

4. By default, Focalboard listens on port 8000. Open your web browser and navigate to http://YOUR_SERVER_IP:8000/ to access Focalboard.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Focalboard on an OpenBSD server. Now that you have Focalboard up and running, you can start using it to manage your team's tasks, projects, and more.

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