Sovereign is a handy tool that allows you to host your own personal cloud services using open-source software, and it comes with several services like email, calendar, and file sharing. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of Sovereign on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before we begin, you will need:
To start, you will need to install Git. You can install it using the following command:
sudo zypper install git
Next, you need to clone the Sovereign repository. To do this, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign.git
Sovereign has several dependencies that we need to install. You can install them using the following command:
sudo zypper install python-pip python-virtualenv python-setuptools python-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel
Once we have installed the dependencies, we need to create a Python virtual environment. To do this, move to the sovereign directory and run the following command:
cd sovereign
virtualenv .venv
Next, you need to activate the virtual environment. You can do this by running the following command:
source .venv/bin/activate
You will know if the virtual environment is active if you see the name of the virtual environment displayed in your shell prompt, e.g. (.venv) username@hostname:~/sovereign$.
With the virtual environment activated, we can now install Sovereign using the following command:
pip install -r requirements.txt
After Sovereign is installed, you need to configure it. Copy the sample config file to a new file named config.yml:
cp config-example.yml config.yml
Now, open the config.yml file in your preferred editor and enter your desired configuration.
With the configuration complete, we need to initialize Sovereign by running the script:
./sovereign init
Now that Sovereign is set up, you can start each service separately. For example, you can start the email service using the following command:
./sovereign email up
Note that you should start each service in a separate terminal window.
You now have Sovereign installed on your OpenSUSE Latest system. Enjoy your self-hosted cloud services!
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