Installing Gancio on Arch Linux

Gancio is an open-source event management tool that allows you to organize your events and share them with your community. In this tutorial, we will cover how to install Gancio on Arch Linux.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, you need to have the following:

  • Arch Linux installed on your system
  • A user with sudo privileges
  • A terminal emulator (e.g. gnome-terminal)

Installing Gancio

To install Gancio on Arch Linux, follow these steps:

Step 1: Update the system

Before we begin, it's important to update the system to ensure that all packages are up-to-date. Open up the terminal and run the following commands:

sudo pacman -Syu

Enter your password when prompted and wait for the process to complete.

Step 2: Install the required dependencies

Gancio requires the following dependencies to be installed on your system:

  • git
  • python
  • python-pip
  • postgresql
  • sassc

To install these dependencies, run the following command:

sudo pacman -S git python python-pip postgresql sassc

Enter your password when prompted and wait for the process to complete.

Step 3: Clone the Gancio repository

Next, we need to clone the Gancio repository from GitHub. To do this, run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/gancio/gancio.git

Step 4: Install Gancio

Now that we have all the dependencies and the Gancio repository, we can install Gancio. Navigate to the Gancio directory and run the following command:

./setup.sh

This will install Gancio and create a new PostgreSQL database for it.

Step 5: Configure Gancio

Once Gancio is installed, we need to configure it by setting up the necessary environment variables. Edit the file ./envrc and set the appropriate values for GANCIOWEB_SETTINGS and DATABASE_URL for your environment.

Step 6: Start the Gancio server

Finally, to start the Gancio server, run the following command:

source ./envrc
./runserver.sh

This will start the Gancio server on http://localhost:5000/.

Conclusion

Congratulations, you have successfully installed Gancio on Arch Linux! You can now use it to create and manage events, as well as share them with your community.