How to Install Antville on Elementary OS Latest

In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Antville on your Elementary OS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we proceed with the installation, we need to ensure that the following requirements are met:

  • A user account with administrative privileges (sudo access)
  • Elementary OS Latest instance
  • Basic knowledge of the terminal commands

Step 1: Update the System

Before installing Antville or any other packages, we need to make sure that our system is up-to-date. Run the following command to update the system packages:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Step 2: Install Java

Antville is based on Java, and it requires Java 8 or later to run. We need to install Java 8 or later on our system.

To install the latest version of Java, run the following command:

sudo apt install default-jdk -y

Once the installation is complete, you can check the Java version installed on your machine by running the following command:

java -version

Step 3: Install Antville

We will now download and install Antville on our system. Follow the steps given below:

  1. Create a folder to install Antville:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/antville/
  1. Change the directory to the newly created directory:
cd /opt/antville/
  1. Download the Antville source code from the official website:
sudo wget https://antville.org/releases/antville-latest.tar.gz
  1. Extract the downloaded file:
sudo tar -xvf antville-latest.tar.gz
  1. Rename the extracted folder:
sudo mv antville-2.2.1 antville
  1. Change ownership and permission of the Antville directory:
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /opt/antville/antville/
sudo chmod -R 755 /opt/antville/antville/

Step 4: Configure Antville

We need to configure Antville by setting up the database and other parameters. Follow the steps given below:

  1. Install PostgreSQL database:
sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib -y
  1. Create the Antville database and user:
sudo -su postgres
CREATE USER antville WITH PASSWORD 'password';
CREATE DATABASE antville WITH OWNER antville;
  1. Change the ownership of the Antville directory:
sudo chown -R postgres:postgres /opt/antville/antville
  1. Change the directory to Antville and create a configuration file:
cd /opt/antville/antville/
sudo cp src/conf/antville.properties.sample src/conf/antville.properties
  1. Edit the configuration file:
sudo nano src/conf/antville.properties

Find the following parameters and update them with your own values:

antville.url = http://localhost:1234
antville.db = postgresql://antville:password@localhost:5432/antville
  1. Build and deploy Antville:
ant build
ant deploy

Once the deployment is complete, you can run Antville by executing the following command:

ant run

Step 5: Access Antville

You can access Antville by visiting the following URL in your web browser:

http://localhost:1234

Conclusion

You have successfully installed and configured Antville on your Elementary OS Latest. You can now use Antville to manage your blogs and websites.