Tracim is an open source collaborative platform that allows teams to create, manage, and share knowledge in a simple and intuitive way. In this tutorial, we will be demonstrating how to install Tracim on OpenBSD.
Step 1: Update your system
Before installing Tracim, it is important to ensure that your OpenBSD system is up to date by running the following command:
sudo sysupgrade
This command will upgrade the system packages to the latest available version.
Step 2: Install the required packages
Tracim requires some dependencies to be installed on OpenBSD. To install them, run the following command:
sudo pkg_add postgresql-server py3-pip py3-setuptools py3-psycopg2 py3-virtualenv
This will install PostgreSQL, pip, setuptools, psycopg2 and virtualenv on your system.
Step 3: Create a PostgreSQL user and database
Next, create a new PostgreSQL user and database for Tracim. Run the following commands to do so:
sudo su - _postgresql
/usr/local/bin/initdb -D /var/postgresql/data
sed -i 's/127.0.0.1\/32/0.0.0.0\/0/' /var/postgresql/data/pg_hba.conf
sed -i 's/#listen_addresses/listen_addresses/' /var/postgresql/data/postgresql.conf
rcctl start postgresql
createuser -P tracim
createdb -O tracim tracim
exit
These commands create a new PostgreSQL user, tracim, and a new database, tracim, both of which we'll use for Tracim.
Step 4: Clone the Tracim repository
To install Tracim, clone the Tracim repository from GitHub:
cd /opt
sudo git clone https://github.com/tracim/tracim.git
sudo chown -R _www:_www tracim/
Here, we cloned the Tracim repository to /opt/tracim and changed the ownership of the tracim directory to _www:_www.
Step 5: Create a virtual environment and install Tracim
Change to the tracim directory and create a new virtual environment. Then activate the environment and install Tracim:
cd tracim
sudo -u _www virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
This will create a new virtual environment for Tracim and install all the dependencies.
Step 6: Configure Tracim
Copy the example configuration file to a new file called tracim.cfg and edit it to include your PostgreSQL database details:
cp tracim.cfg.example tracim.cfg
vi tracim.cfg
Edit the following parameters in the tracim.cfg file:
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'postgresql://tracim:<password>@localhost/tracim'
Replace <password> with the password you created for the tracim PostgreSQL user in Step 3.
Step 7: Initialize the database
Now that the configuration is complete, we can use the Flask-Migrate extension to initialize our database:
python migrate.py db upgrade
This command will create the necessary tables in the tracim database.
Step 8: Start Tracim
Finally, start the Tracim server:
python run.py
By default, Tracim will listen on port 5000. Access Tracim by pointing your web browser to http://your-server:5000/.
Congratulations! You have now installed Tracim on OpenBSD. You can now begin to collaborate with your team and share knowledge.
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