Installing and Running Trac on Debian

# apt-get install python2.3-subversion python2.3-sqlite

Trac is not packaged, follow the source install

Notes from a debian sarge install

Get clearsilver from ​http://www.clearsilver.net/

• (tested with ​http://www.clearsilver.net/downloads/clearsilver-0.9.8.tar.gz)

• tar xvfz clearsilver-0.9.8.tar.gz
• cd clearsilver-0.9.8
• ./configure
• make
• make install
• cd python/
• ln -s /usr/bin/python2.3 /usr/bin/python
• make
• make install

Everything else should be OK apart from the fact that you will have to get a subversion from unstable (don't worry, unstable for debian is like normal redhat)

• apt-get -t unstable install subversion

This should then allow you to build and initialise trac.

When you come to running it though you'll also have to add the env_module using the following line in your /etc/apache/modules.conf

• LoadModule env_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_env.so

I then set up a trac.conf in my /etc/apache/conf.d folder like so

<VirtualHost local.trac>

alias /trac/ "/usr/share/trac/htdocs/" ServerAdmin youremail@… DocumentRoot /home/tim/myTrac ServerName local.trac ErrorLog /home/tim/myTrac/logs/error.log CustomLog /home/tim/myTrac/logs/access_log common AddHandler cgi-script cgi <Location "/cgi-bin/trac.cgi">

SetEnv TRAC_DB "/home/tim/myTrac/tracdb/mydb" Options FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI AllowOverride None

</Location>

</VirtualHost>

Don't forget to create those log folders though (apachectl configtest doesn't warn you about that one)