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Installing and Running Trac on Debian
Note: This page does not provide step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring all of Trac. It is just a reference for installing the Debian software packages and locating configuration files. You will need to read TracInstall for complete instructions on running and configuring Trac.
Note: These Instructions are for Trac 0.11 or better, but the package contains Trac 0.11! They also apply for Ubuntu.
Note: Debian 6.0 (code-named squeeze, currently the stable release contains Trac 0.11.7 and some plugins for this version of Trac. The next Debian release (7.0, code-name wheezy, currently the testing release) contains Trac 0.12.2 with plugins for this version Trac.
The Trac package is named trac and is available from the main archive. This package is maintained by Debian Python Applications Packaging Team.
Where to get info about Trac in Debian
- Package Information: http://packages.debian.org/trac
Information about available versions, dependencies, file list and links to other resources.
- Package Tracking System: http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/trac.html
Summary of package information including available versions, maintainers and number of bugs (in Debian and Ubuntu)
- Bug Tracking System: http://bugs.debian.org/trac
All bugs filled against Trac in Debian and their status.
Installing Trac
To install Trac just write in console:
apt-get install trac
This will get you the plain Trac installation. To see what additional packages are available, issue:
apt-get show trac
Supporting other Version Control Systems than Subversion
You can also install plugins that support other version control system besides Subversion: Their packages are:
- trac-git :: adds support for the Git distributed version control system. If you are installing this on Debian or a Debian derived system, you can read the document /usr/share/doc/trac-git/README.Debian for more information on installing trac-git plugin under Debian.
apt-get install trac-git
- trac-mercurial :: adds support for the Mercurial distributed version control system
apt-get install trac-mercurial
- trac-bzr :: adds support for the bzr distributed version control system
apt-get install trac-bzr
Other Trac plugins
Some widely used Trac plugins are packaged by Debian, so that they can be easily installed and are part of the Debian package universe. They can all be installed by
apt-get install trac-"pluginname"
with pluginname replaced by e.g. spamfilter.
Plugins in Debian
| Debian Package | Version in stable | Version in unstable or testing |
| trac-accountmanager | 0.2.1+r7731-1 | 0.2.1+r7731-1
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| trac-announcer | — | 0.12.1+r10986-2
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| trac-authopenid | 0.2.4-1 | 0.3.1-1
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| trac-bitten | 0.6b2.dfsg-3 | 0.6+final-2
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| trac-bitten-slave | installed with trac-bitten | 0.6+final-2
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| trac-bzr | 0.3.2-1 | 0.4.2+bzr118-1
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| trac-customfieldadmin | 0.2.2+r6485-1 | 0.2.6+r10460-1
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| trac-datefieldplugin | — | 0.7782-3
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| trac-diavisview | — | 0.1+r11124-2
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| trac-email2trac | 1.0.0-1 | 2.4.7-1
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| trac-git | 0.0.20100513-2 | 0.12.0.5+722342e-1
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| trac-graphviz | 0.7.5-1 | 0.7.5-1
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| trac-icalviewplugin | 0.7889-1 | 0.7889-1
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| trac-ja-resource | 0.11.5.ja1-1 | — |
| trac-mastertickets | 2.1.3+r4179-1 | 3.0.2+20111224-1
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| trac-mercurial | 0.11.0.7+svnr8365-3 | 0.12.0.28-1
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| trac-odtexport | — | 0.6.0+svn10787-1
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| trac-privateticketsplugin | — | 2.0.3-2
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| trac-spamfilter | 0.2.1+svn6871-3 | 0.2.1+svn6871-3
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| trac-subtickets | — | 0.1.1+253f019-1
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| trac-tags | — | 0.6.0+svn10671-1
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| trac-virtualticketpermissions | — | 1.0.0+svn4153-1
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| trac-wikiprint | 1.6+r5729-1 | 1.9.2-1
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| trac-wikirename | 2.1.1-1 | 2.1.1-1
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| trac-wikitablemacro | 0.7785-1 | 0.7785-1
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| trac-wysiwyg | 0.2+svn5931-1 | 0.12.0.3+r10725-1
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| trac-xmlrpc | 1.0.6+svn6598-1 | 1.1.2+r10706-1
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Supporting other database backend than SQLite
Trac can support other database systems to store its information (wiki, tickets and user data).
- PostgreSQL
apt-get install python-psycopg2
- MySQL
apt-get install python-mysqldb
Additional Trac files
Trac is installed in /usr/share/pyshared/trac. Documentation is in /usr/share/doc/trac as is traditional with Debian. It includes both Trac and Debian information as well as helper scripts. There are also man pages for tracd and trac-admin.
Configuring Trac Environment under Debian
Debian documentation contains everything you need to setup Trac Environment and make its web-interface accessible. It can be read with the command:
zless /usr/share/doc/trac/README.Debian.gz
Latest version of this file can also be read online.
