= Installing and Running Trac on Debian =

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<strong>Note from mgood:</strong> I am currently in the process of rewriting this page.  It is not currently complete, but should cover the most common topics already.  If you have more questions you may want to refer back to the previous revision of this page I have finished.
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<strong>Note from vinay:</strong> Having just installed python2.4 on my debian box (I have an x86-64 box and as such python2.3 has bugs in it for the platform), I went through hell and high water (mainly because of a lack of documentation) to get trac running again (as sarge does not support the python bindings at this time).  The short of it is, after upgrading to python2.4, and building my own trac package (just download it and install it manually), I had to download the subversion package (from http://subversion.tigris.org/) and compile the swig-py package:
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./configure;  make; make install; make swig-py; make install-swig-py
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Once that was done, I had to do the following.<br/><br/>
echo "/usr/local/lib/svn-python" > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/svn.pth<br /><br />.

<b>To whom it may concern (probably mgood)</b>: move this information to wherever it's necessary.
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'''Note:''' ''This page does not provide step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring all of Trac.  Use this page as a reference for installing the Debian software packages and the locations of configuration files, but you will need to read TracInstall and the other documentation sections for complete instructions on running and configuring Trac.''

These instructions require the Debian Sarge release or newer.  There are instructions below for [wiki:TracOnDebian#Woodyoldstable installing Trac on Woody].  Check http://packages.debian.org/trac to see the latest available Trac version for your Debian release.

These instructions use the commandline tool `apt-get` to install the packages which you will need to run as the `root` user.  If you prefer to use a graphical tool such as `synaptic` you can search for the package names mentioned to install them.

== Required Packages ==

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 apt-get install trac
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== Apache ==

Trac can be run in [wiki:TracStandalone standalone mode], or with a web server of your choice.  [http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache] is a recommended choice and packages are available for Debian:

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 apt-get install apache2
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In addition to installing the server itself you will need to install one of the Apache modules mentioned below to allow the Trac application to run under Apache.  Each subsection refers to the general Trac documentation for the Apache configuration necessary for that module.  On Debian it is recommended to put your Trac Apache configuration statements into a new file called "/etc/apache2/sites-available/trac".  Then use the following command to enable your Trac site:

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 a2ensite trac
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More detailed Apache documentation can be found in the package `apache2-doc`.

For Trac versions 0.8.x mod_python is recommended.  Trac [milestone:0.9] also supports FastCGI.  CGI instructions are provided, but this is not recommended since mod_python or FastCGI will give significantly better performance.

=== mod_python ===

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 apt-get install libapache2-mod-python
 a2enmod mod_python
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See TracModPython for further instructions.

=== FastCGI ===

'''Note:''' ''FastCGI requires Trac [milestone:0.9] or higher.''

'''Note:''' ''Trac currently requires the Apache module listed below from the "non-free" Debian repository.  There is another similar module called "fcgi" instead of "fastcgi".  The "fcgi" module '''will not work'''.''

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 apt-get install libapache2-mod-fastcgi
 a2enmod fastcgi
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See TracFastCgi for further instructions.

=== CGI ===

The CGI module is included with the Apache2 packages, but you will need to ensure that the module is loaded in order to run CGI scripts:

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 a2enmod cgi
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See TracCgi for further instructions.


== Suggested Packages ==

TracSyntaxColoring requires `enscript` and WikiRestructuredText requires `python-docutils`:

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    apt-get install enscript python-docutils
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== Woody (oldstable) ==

TODO