Inventree is an open-source platform for managing inventory, it can track items, their categories, and their locations. If you want to use Inventree and have nixOS latest as your operating system, you can follow the below steps to install it:
Open the terminal on nixOS
Update the local package list using the below command:
sudo nix-channel --update
Install the inventree
package using nix-env:
nix-env --install inventree
Create a system service file for Inventree using the below command:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/inventree.service
Add the below content in the Inventree service file:
[Unit]
Description=Inventree Service
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=inventree
Group=inventree
WorkingDirectory=/var/opt/inventree
ExecStart=/opt/inventree/inventree/bin/python3 /opt/inventree/inventree/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
You can change the working directory and service executable command based on the location of your Inventree installation.
Create a user and group for Inventree using the below command:
sudo useradd -r -m -U -d /var/opt/inventree -s /usr/sbin/nologin inventree
Set the ownership and permissions for the /var/opt/inventree
directory using the below command:
sudo chown inventree:inventree /var/opt/inventree && sudo chmod 750 /var/opt/inventree
Reload the daemon using the following command:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
Start the service using the below command:
sudo systemctl start inventree
You have successfully installed and started Inventree on your nixOS system. You can now access the Inventree using your browser by opening localhost:8000
in your browser.
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