Installing Indico on Manjaro

Indico is a powerful event management system used extensively in the academic community. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to install Indico on Manjaro:

Step 1: Install required dependencies

Before installing Indico, you first need to ensure that all the required dependencies are installed on your system. In this case, the necessary dependencies are python, pip, postgresql, postgresql-libs, and git.

You can install them easily using pacman, Manjaro's package manager, by typing the following command in your terminal:

sudo pacman -S python-pip postgresql postgresql-libs git

Step 2: Clone the Indico repository

Once the dependencies are installed, you need to clone the Indico repository from GitHub. Clone the repository by typing the following command in your terminal:

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

Step 3: Install virtual environment

Indico requires a virtual environment to run properly, so the next step is to set up a virtual environment in your system.

pip install virtualenv

Now create a virtual environment for Indico:

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 indico-env

Activate the virtual environment:

source indico-env/bin/activate

Step 4: Install Indico

In the activated virtual environment, you can now install Indico using pip, which is Python's package manager.

cd indico
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install psycopg2
pip install indico

This should install everything you need to get Indico running on your local machine.

Step 5: Configure the database

Next, you'll need to create a new PostgreSQL database and configure Indico to use it.

sudo -u postgres createdb indico
sudo -u postgres createuser -P indico

Enter a password for the newly created user 'indico'.

Then, edit the Indico configuration file to use the newly created database:

nano ~/indico/etc/indico.conf

You will need to set the following options to the values shown below:

SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = 'postgresql://indico:<password>@localhost/indico'
SECRET_KEY = '<your secret key>'

Step 6: Startup the server

Indico should now be fully installed and configured on your local machine. You can now start the Indico server by running the following command:

indico-cli run -h <your hostname>

Replace <your hostname> with your local IP address or domain name.

Now you can open your web browser and navigate to the following address to view Indico:

http://<your hostname>:8000/

That's it! You should now have a fully working instance of Indico up and running on Manjaro.