Trac on Slackware 12.0

The following instructions are a guide to deploying Trac (pre-v1.4) on ​Slackware. This was tested on Slackware 12.0.

Prerequisites

This software must be installed:

• d/python
• d/subversion
• l/neon
• n/httpd
• l/arp
• checkinstall (1.6.0, if you use 1.6.1, don't forget to add --install=yes into its options list)

Installing software

SQLite

Build and install:

configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make
checkinstall --type=slackware --arch=i686 --pkgname=sqlite --pkgrelease=trac1 --default

pysqlite

Build and install:

python setup.py build
python setup.py install

SWIG

Build and install:

configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
make
checkinstall --type=slackware --arch=i686 --pkgname=swig --pkgrelease=trac1 --default

Subversion

Subversion package needs to be rebuilt to enable SWIG.

• Grab sources and SlackBuild of original package (see source/d/subversion).
• Patch subversion.SlackBuild:

  subversion.SlackBuild

  @@ -5 +5 @@
   
   VERSION=1.4.4
   ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
  -BUILD=1
  +BUILD=trac1
  +
  +PYTHON_VER=2.5
   
   if [ "$ARCH" = "i386" ]; then
     SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686"
  @@ -47 +49 @@
     --with-pic \
     --with-ssl \
     --with-zlib \
  +  --with-swig \
  +  --enable-swig-bindings=python \
     --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
   make -j4 || exit 1
  +make swig-py
   make install DESTDIR=$PKG
  +make install-swig-py DESTDIR=$PKG
   make install-docs DESTDIR=$PKG
   
   ( cd $PKG
  @@ -82 +88 @@
     -exec chmod 644 {} \;
   ) 
   
  +mkdir -p $PKG/usr/lib/python$PYTHON_VER/site-packages
  +cp -R $PKG/usr/lib/svn-python/libsvn $PKG/usr/lib/python$PYTHON_VER/site-packages
  +cp -R $PKG/usr/lib/svn-python/svn $PKG/usr/lib/python$PYTHON_VER/site-packages
  +
   mkdir -p $PKG/install
   cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc

• Run subversion.SlackBuild
• Go to /tmp
• Perform

  upgradepkg subversion-1.4.4-i486-trac1.tgz
  

Note that the version number and package revision can be different.

pycxx

Build and install:

python setup.py install

pysvn

Since Slackware lacks some crypto libraries, it's neccessary to patch Source/setup.py first:

./Source/setup.

@@ -300 +300 @@
 -lsvn_client-1 \
 -lsvn_diff-1 \
 -lsvn_repos-1 \
- -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lk5crypto -lkrb5support -lcom_err -lresolv -lexpat -lneon
+-lcom_err -lresolv -lexpat -lneon
 
 #include pysvn_common.mak
 '''

Build and install:

cd Source
pyhton setup.py configure ; make
mkdir /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pysvn
cp pysvn/__init__.py pysvn/_pysvn_2_5.so /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pysvn

Clearsilver

Build and install:

configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-python=/usr/bin/python --without-ruby --without-java --without-csharp
make
checkinstall --type=slackware --arch=i686 --pkgname=clearsilver --pkgrelease=trac1 --default

Note: if make fails, try changing —without-* to —disable-*. So, your configure command may look like:

configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-python=/usr/bin/python --disable-ruby --disable-java --disable-csharp

Trac

Build and install:

python setup.py build
python setup.py install
ldconfig

mod_python (optional)

Build and install:

configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs
make
checkinstall --type=slackware --arch=i686 --pkgname=mod_python --pkgrelease=trac1 --default

Don't forget to add the following into /etc/httpd/httpd.conf:

LoadModule python_module lib/httpd/modules/mod_python.so

Notes on Python Modules

• Check whether all the modules are installed into /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages
• Check whether /usr/lib/python is a symlink to /usr/lib/python2.5

Configuring

Configuration of Trac on Slackware is the same as for other Linux distributions:

• Configure Trac environment.
• Configure Apache.

These instructions are described in TracInstall.