How to Install Klaus on OpenBSD

Klaus is a simple web viewer for Git repositories that you can use to browse your code repositories. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Klaus on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before starting, you should have the following:

• OpenBSD installed and up-to-date
• Root access to the OpenBSD system
• A user account with sudo privileges
• A working Git repository

Step 1: Install Required Packages

Before you install Klaus, you will need to install some dependencies. Use the following command to install the required packages:

$ doas pkg_add git python3 py3-setuptools py3-requests py3-flask

Step 2: Clone Klaus Repository

Next, clone the Klaus repository into a new directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/jonashaag/klaus.git /var/www/klaus

Step 3: Install Klaus

Change into the Klaus directory:

$ cd /var/www/klaus

Then, use the following command to install Klaus:

$ doas python3 setup.py install

Step 4: Configure Klaus

Create a configuration file for your Klaus installation:

$ doas cp /var/www/klaus/examples/klaus.cfg /etc/klaus.cfg

Edit the klaus.cfg file to include the path to your Git repository:

[git]
repositories = /path/to/your/repo

Step 5: Start Klaus

Start the Klaus server with the following command:

$ doas klaus /etc/klaus.cfg

Now, you can access Klaus by opening a web browser and navigating to http://<your-server-ip>:8080/. You should see a page displaying your Git repository.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Klaus on OpenBSD. Now that you have Klaus installed and running, you can use it to browse your Git repositories.

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