Installing Tine - Community Edition on Kali Linux Latest

Tine - Community Edition is an open-source groupware and CRM application developed to manage and organize your contacts and events. In this tutorial, we will be installing Tine - Community Edition on Kali Linux Latest from GitHub.

Prerequisites

  • Kali Linux latest version installed on your system
  • Access to the command terminal
  • Admin privileges

Step 1: Installing dependencies

Before installing Tine - Community Edition, we need to install the required dependencies:

sudo apt-get install apache2 mariadb-server php php-cli php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-mysqli php-pgsql php-pear php-pspell php-xmlrpc php-xsl git

Step 2: Cloning Tine - Community Edition from GitHub

Once the dependencies have been installed successfully, we will clone the Tine - Community Edition from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/tine20/tine20.git

Step 3: Configuring your Mariadb server

We have to configure the Mariadb server before Tine - Community Edition installation. Follow these steps to do the same:

  • Login to Mariadb with root access: sudo mysql -u root -p
  • Create a database with name "tine20db" by running: create database tine20db;
  • Create a database user with username "tine" and password "tine123" by running: CREATE USER 'tine'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'tine123';
  • Grant all privileges to "tine" user for "tine20db" database: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON tine20db.* TO 'tine'@'localhost';
  • Flush privileges: FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
  • Exit mariadb server using exit

Step 4: Setting up the Tine-Community Edition

Navigate to the cloned Tine-Community Edition folder using cd tine20

Run the following command to install dependencies:

sudo composer install

Create a configuration file by copying the sample configuration file:

cp config.inc.php.dist config.inc.php

Edit the configuration file by running:

nano config.inc.php

Add database information under the database section in the configuration file:

  'database' => [
      'hostspec' => 'localhost',
      'username' => 'tine',
      'password' => 'tine123',
      'database' => 'tine20db',
      'adapter'  => 'pdo_mysql',
  ],

Save the configuration file and exit nano.

Run the following command to generate the database schema:

phinx migrate

Start the Apache server using:

sudo service apache2 start

Access Tine - Community Edition via a web browser at this address: 

http://localhost/tine20/setup/

Follow the prompts to complete the installation process.

Conclusion

You have successfully installed Tine - Community Edition on Kali Linux Latest. You can now use this powerful open-source tool to manage and organize your contacts and events.