How to Install Kallithea on OpenBSD

Introduction

Kallithea is a free software source code management system that supports Mercurial (Hg) and Git repositories. OpenBSD is a free and open-source operating system. This tutorial will guide you through how to install Kallithea on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

• OpenBSD server
• Root access or privileged user with sudo access
• Internet connection

Steps

1. Login to your OpenBSD server via the command line or SSH.

2. Update the package list:

   $ sudo pkg_add -Uuv
   

3. Install Python 3:

   $ sudo pkg_add python-3.9.9p1
   

4. Install Git:

   $ sudo pkg_add git-2.34.1
   

5. Install PostgreSQL:

   $ sudo pkg_add postgresql-server-13.3 postgresql-client-13.3 py3-psycopg2-2.9.1
   

6. Initialize the PostgreSQL database:

   $ sudo su - _postgresql
   $ initdb -D /var/postgresql/data13
   $ exit
   

7. Start the PostgreSQL service:

   $ sudo rcctl enable postgresql
   $ sudo rcctl start postgresql
   

8. Install Kallithea:

   $ sudo pkg_add kallithea-0.7.1
   

9. Create a user account for Kallithea:

   $ sudo kallithea-create-user myuser myemail@domain.tld -a
   

   Replace myuser with your desired username and myemail@domain.tld with your email.

10. Create a configuration file for Kallithea:

    $ sudo mkdir /etc/kallithea
    $ sudo cp /usr/local/share/kallithea/kallithea.ini /etc/kallithea/
    

11. Edit the configuration file:

    $ sudo vi /etc/kallithea/kallithea.ini
    

    Change the following lines:

    [server:main]
    # Change the IP address and port to your server's IP address and port
    host = 10.0.0.10
    port = 8080
    
    [app:main]
    # Uncomment and change the following line to your desired secret key
    secret_key = mysecretkey
    # Uncomment and change the following line to your PostgreSQL database URL
    sqlalchemy.url = postgresql://myuser:mypassword@localhost:5432/kallithea
    

    Replace 10.0.0.10 with your server's IP address, 8080 with your desired port number, mysecretkey with your desired secret key, myuser with the username you created in step 9, mypassword with a strong password for the user, and kallithea with your desired database name.

12. Create a systemd service file for Kallithea:

    $ sudo vi /etc/rc.d/kallithea
    

    Paste the following:

    #!/bin/sh
    
    daemon="/usr/local/bin/pserve"
    daemon_flags="/etc/kallithea/kallithea.ini"
    
    . /etc/rc.d/rc.subr
    
    rc_bg=YES
    rc_cmd $1
    

13. Make the service file executable:

    $ sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.d/kallithea
    

14. Start the Kallithea service:

    $ sudo rcctl enable kallithea
    $ sudo rcctl start kallithea
    

15. Access Kallithea in your web browser by visiting http://<server-ip>:<port>.

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Kallithea on OpenBSD!

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