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.

Attached is the ebuild to build trac from it's source:trunk​. To use it save and extract it to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY, normally

/usr/local/portage/www-apps

Of course if you already don't have it there, add to your make.conf:

PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/"

So, from scratch, add the above to your make.conf and:

mkdir /usr/local/portage/
mkdir /usr/local/portage/www-apps
cd /usr/local/portage/www-apps
wget http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/attachment/wiki/TracOnGentoo/trac-svn.tar
tar zxvf trac-svn.tar
rm trac-svn.tar
emerge trac-svn -va