Installing Trac on Slackware 10.2 or 11.0

Warning: as always, start by reading the generic TracInstall instructions. If you have platform dependent issues, you might find hints

Installing trac involves a lot of weirdness so I figured I'd share my final solution for getting everything working with the latest versions.

Make sure you are user root when doing the installation commands.

Base Setup

Make sure you have apache, python and apr (Apache Portable Runtime) installed. Make sure you _do not_ have subversion installed (use pkgtool to verify).

Sqlite

Get the sqlite-3.3.x tarball from ​http://www.sqlite.org/download.html Simply:

./configure
make
make install

PySqlite

Get the pysqlite-2.x.x tarball from ​http://initd.org/tracker/pysqlite Again, simple:

python setup.py install

Swig

Get swig-1.3.25 (Be carefull with later versions, they are not guarenteed to work well)

./configure
make
make install

Subversion

This is the big nasty. Get subversion-1.3.0 tarball.

In ticket #2472, there is an attachment called patch1.patch. Save this file in the extracted subversion-1.3.0 directory.

Look to ticket #2620. Somewhere in there you'll see a patch for the file subversion/bindings/swig/python/libsvn_swig_py/swigutil_py.c. Remove the red lines by hand [someone please make a patch] to patch it by hand.

Save this file:

http://trac.edgewall.org/attachment/ticket/2611/application_pool_race_condition_fix.txt?format=raw

As patch3.patch.

patch -p0 < patch1.patch
patch -p0 < patch3.patch
./configure --with-swig --enable-swig-bindings=python
make extraclean
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-swig --enable-swig-bindings=python
make
make swig-py
make install-swig-py
make install

At this point subversion and the python bindings are installed. Now we need to "enable" those bindings:

echo /usr/local/lib/svn-python > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/svn.pth

Clearsilver

I used version clearsilver-0.10.3.

./configure
make
make install

Trac

At this point you should be able to install trac like normal (I used 0.10.3)

python setup.py install

Reset your dynamic linker cache

Finally, before you run trac-admin, rebuild the linker cache so that it picks up the new shared libraries you have installed.

ldconfig

Good luck!

If you are trying to install on a similar setup and are having trouble, I might be able to help (c1a2mior@… but without the numbers).

-- David Sankel

neo_cgi from clearsilver

If an error occurred saying there's no module named neo_cgi, just copy the python/neo_cgi.so file from the directory where you built clearsilver.

Found this here: ​http://lists.edgewall.com/archive/trac/2005-December/006092.html