Fossil is a distributed version control system and bug tracking system that is designed to be scalable and easy to use. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Fossil on OpenBSD.
Before you start installing Fossil on OpenBSD, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
The first thing you need to do is to update your package repository.
sudo pkg_add -u
Then, you need to install the required dependencies for Fossil. These dependencies are SQLite, OpenSSL, Tcl, and Zlib.
sudo pkg_add sqlite3 openssl tcl zlibc
After installing the dependencies, you can proceed by downloading and compiling Fossil. You can do this by following the steps below:
First, download the latest stable version of Fossil from their website.
wget https://fossil-scm.org/home/uv/fossil-src-2.15.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded file.
tar -zxf fossil-src-2.15.tar.gz
Navigate to the extracted directory.
cd fossil-src-2.15
Compile Fossil using the make command.
make
Once the compilation is done, you should have a binary file named fossil in the same directory.
The last step is to move the Fossil binary file to the system path. This step will allow you to access Fossil from anywhere in the system.
Copy the fossil binary file to the /usr/local/bin directory.
sudo cp fossil /usr/local/bin/
Change the ownership and permissions of the binary file.
sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local/bin/fossil
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/fossil
Now, you can use Fossil by opening a terminal and running the fossil command.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Fossil on OpenBSD. By following these steps, you should have an up-and-running version control system that can help you manage your projects more efficiently.
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