How to Install Libervia on Arch Linux

Introduction

Libervia is a web interface for Salut à Toi social platform, which provides decentralized communication and collaboration features such as instant messaging, file sharing, and microblogging. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Libervia on Arch Linux.

Prerequisites

  • A system running Arch Linux
  • A user account with sudo privileges

Step 1: Install Dependencies

Before installing Libervia, it requires some dependencies to be installed on the system. Let’s update our package manager and install the dependencies by running the following command:

sudo pacman -Syu python python-pip python-xdg python-setuptools python-lxml python-psycopg2 libxslt libxml2 libffi libssl

Step 2: Install Libervia

Once the dependencies are installed, we can proceed with the installation of Libervia. We will install it using pip, which is a package manager for Python.

Run the following command to install Libervia:

sudo pip install --user https://repos.goffi.org/libervia-web/dists/libervia-web-0.9.0.tar.gz

Note: The above command will install version 0.9.0 of Libervia. You can replace it with the latest version available on the website.

Step 3: Configure PostgresSQL Database

Libervia requires a PostgresSQL database to store all its data. We need to create a user and database in PostgresSQL before proceeding with the configuration.

  1. Install PostgresSQL and its dependencies by running the following command:

    sudo pacman -S postgresql postgresql-libs

  2. Initialize the database cluster:

    sudo su postgres -c "initdb --locale en_US.UTF-8 -E UTF8 -D '/var/lib/postgres/data'"

  3. Start the PostgreSQL service and enable it to start at boot:

    sudo systemctl start postgresql
sudo systemctl enable postgresql

  4. Create a new user and database in PostgreSQL:

    sudo -u postgres createdb -O libervia libervia
sudo -u postgres psql -c "ALTER USER libervia PASSWORD 'your_password';"

  5. Edit the /var/lib/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf file and replace the line:

    # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     trust

    with

    # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     md5

  6. Restart the PostgreSQL service to apply the changes:

    sudo systemctl restart postgresql

Step 4: Configure Libervia

Once the PostgresSQL database is configured, we are now ready to configure Libervia.

  1. Create a configuration file for Libervia:

    mkdir -p ~/.config/libervia
vim ~/.config/libervia/config.ini

  2. Add the following configuration to the config.ini file and replace the values with your actual settings:

    [daemon]
port = 8000

[web]
domain_name = example.com
base_url = https://example.com

[client]
debug_level = WARN
default_database_uri = postgresql://libervia:your_password@localhost/libervia
run_in_debug_mode = False

  3. After configuring the config.ini file, run the following command to start the Libervia web interface:

    salutatoi

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install and configure Libervia on Arch Linux. You can now access the Libervia web interface by opening a web browser and go to http://localhost:8000.

Happy chat, file sharing, and microblogging!