How to Install Gitlist on OpenSUSE

Gitlist is an open-source Git repository viewer that lets you browse your repositories and view their contents. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Gitlist on OpenSUSE.

Prerequisites

• OpenSUSE latest version
• Access to the Terminal

Step 1: Install PHP and Git

Gitlist is a PHP application, so we need to install PHP on our system.

sudo zypper in php7 php7-openssl php7-mbstring git

Step 2: Clone Gitlist Repository

In order to install Gitlist, we need to clone the Git repository.

git clone https://github.com/klaussilveira/gitlist.git /opt/gitlist

Step 3: Configure Gitlist

Next, we need to copy the config.ini-example file to config.ini in order to configure Gitlist.

cd /opt/gitlist
cp config.ini-example config.ini

Open the config.ini file with a text editor, and make sure that the following configuration settings are set:

[git]
client = /usr/bin/git

[app]
debug = false
cache = false
theme = "default"

[repositories]
; /srv/git/repositories = Name
/opt/gitlist/data/repositories = "My repositories"

Save the changes and exit the file.

Step 4: Install Composer

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that we will use to install the remaining dependencies.

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

Step 5: Install Dependencies

Now, we can use Composer to install the remaining dependencies.

cd /opt/gitlist
composer install --no-dev

Step 6: Start Gitlist

Finally, we can start Gitlist using the built-in PHP web server.

cd /opt/gitlist/public
php -S localhost:8080

Access the Gitlist installation by visiting http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Gitlist on OpenSUSE.

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