Installing and Running Trac on Gentoo

Trac is included in portage as of 2004/04/29. 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.

2005-03-18: It looks like the link to the "​really nice guide" doesn't work.
There is still a version on Google Cache. Maybe we should copy it to this page!?