Installing and Running Trac on Gentoo

Trac is included in portage as of 2004/04/29. The current ebuild is marked with ~x86, so you will have to emerge with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 set, or include the following in your /etc/portage/package.keywords:

  www-apps/trac ~x86

You may need to do the same thing for clearsilver because currently, clearsilver only has ~x86 ebuilds in the main portage tree. Once that is done, installing is as simple as:

  emerge trac

Past that, normal Trac configuration should apply.

Someone's put together a really nice guide to setting up trac on gentoo ​here.

There were a couple of little things that were required to make Trac on Gentoo work.

• Make sure your berkdb and python use flags are set to 'true'!

• If you have any trouble, go down to the bottom and start emerging components this is how I figured out that the svn bindings for Python weren't building, etc.. Be sure to run the python update script if needed.

• Once built, your alias for /trac will be different from the TracInstall doc. It'll look something like this:

Alias /trac "/var/www/yourdomainhere/htdocs/trac/"

This makes Trac all pretty, like you're used to seeing! Otherwise it's got essentially no layout.