= 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. ---- '''More notes for Trac 0.8 on Debian Woody:''' Notice, this is what worked for me on a '''new''' Woody system I built just to host Trac (in a VMware image, yet!), so I was able to be a little free with modifications I made. Be more careful if you are adding Trac to a system you use for other tasks - don't blame me if these instructions break something! These instructions ignore the above and start at the very beginning. * Subversion really wants Apache2 installed. If you run {{{apache2 -v}}} and get an error, you'll need to install Apache2. I removed apache 1.3 and installed Apache2 with the following: {{{ apt-get install apache2-common apache2-doc apache2-mpm-worker libapache2-svn apt-get remove apache apache2 -k start }}} Also, edit /etc/default/apache2 so it says {{{NO_START=0}}} if you want apache2 to run on boot. * Trac 0.8 runs better with Python 2.2 and python-xml (without them, diffs and attachment uploading ''will not'' work). '''Note''' that Trac's email notifications will not work unless you have Python 2.2.2 or greater. Since I couldn't find a Debian/stable .deb for anything higher than Python 2.2.1, I gave up on email notifications. Everything else seems to be workng though! {{{ apt-get install python2.2-xmlbase python2.2-sqlite cd /usr/bin mv python python.orig ln -s python2.2 python cp -R /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages /usr/lib/python2.2 apache2 -k restart }}} * After completing these pre-requisites, I added the following to /etc/apt/sources.list {{{ deb http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/debian woody trac deb http://people.debian.org/~adconrad woody subversion }}} and ran {{{ apt-get install trac }}} * Getting Subversion working: I decided to keep my Subversion project at /var/svn/project. Here are the commands I entered to get SVN up and running: {{{ mkdir /var/svn mkdir /var/svn/project mkdir /tmp/project mkdir /tmp/project/branches mkdir /tmp/project/tags mkdir /tmp/project/trunk svnadmin create /var/svn/project rm -rf /tmp/project svn import /tmp/project file:///var/svn/project -m "initial import" }}} I added the following to /etc/apache2/sites-available/default: {{{ #SVN dir DAV svn SVNParentPath /var/svn }}} Then I fixed permissions and restarted apache2: {{{ chown /var/svn/nim www-data chown -R /var/svn/nim/* www-data apache2 -k restart }}} I was able to test by going to !http://servername.foo.com/svn/project where I could see the empty directories as imported. I did not move on to the next step until this worked right! * Getting Trac running: I put my trac environment at /var/trac/project. I'm not using the mod_python extentions at the moment. First I ran {{{ trac-admin /var/trac/project initenv }}} The command above prompted me to enter the project name, the path to the trac environment, and the path to the Trac templates directory; then it printed out a bunch of stuff. Next, I edited /etc/apache2/sites-available/default. I commented out the existing {{{ScriptAlias}}} and {{{}}} directives, and added this at the end: {{{ Alias /trac "/usr/share/trac/htdocs" ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/share/trac/cgi-bin/ SetEnv TRAC_ENV "/var/trac/project" Options Indexes MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all # You need something like this to authenticate users AuthType Basic AuthName "project" AuthUserFile /var/www/trac.htpasswd Require valid-user }}} Now to fix the permissions, add a couple of users, and restart Apache: {{{ cd /var/www htpasswd -c trac.htpasswd user1 (you'll be prompted for the password) htpasswd trac.htpasswd bar user2 (you'll be prompted for the password) apache2 -k restart }}} Finally, test by going to !http://servername.foo.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi On my installation, I do get some errors ("Python C API version mismatch for module ''blah''") when I run trac-admin at the commandline. Apache also logs similar errors. This is probably because I didn't upgrade to Python2.2 until ''after'' I installed Trac. Hopefully these errors will be avoided by upgradng Python first (as I have advised above), but in any case they don't seem to hurt Trac at all. Everything (except email notifications which I don't need anyway) works perfectly! ---- Furthermore, there is a guide on building the Debian Trac package from the trunk at TracOnDebianFromTrunk