Installing and Running Trac on Debian

The Debian Sid distribution already contain Trac and all required dependencies. Debian Woody and Sarge users need to add a few lines to their /etc/apt/sources.list before installing Trac.

for Woody:

# Trac, clearsilver, sqlite, pysqlite
deb http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/debian woody trac
# Subversion, Apache2
deb http://people.debian.org/~adconrad woody subversion

For Sarge:

# Trac and clearsilver
deb http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/debian sarge trac

Run

 $ apt-get update

after editing the file to update the package cache.

Installing Trac and the required dependencies should now be as simple as:

 $ apt-get install trac

Note: While installing Trac on Debian Woody you might get some harmless warnings when the installation process byte-compiles some source files.

Furthermore, there is a guide on building the Debian Trac package from the trunk at TracOnDebianFromTrunk