How to Install Roundup Issue Tracker on NetBSD

Roundup is an open-source issue tracking system that is easy to use and customize. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Roundup on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

Before installing Roundup, you need to make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your NetBSD system:

  • Python 2.7 or Python 3.5+
  • setuptools
  • pip

You can install these prerequisites using the following commands:

$ pkg_add python
$ pkg_add py27-setuptools
$ pkg_add py27-pip

Installing Roundup

Once you have the prerequisites installed, you can proceed with installing Roundup on your NetBSD system.

  1. First, download the latest version of Roundup from the official website:
$ cd /opt
$ wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/roundup/roundup/2.1.0/roundup-2.1.0.tar.gz
  1. Extract the downloaded archive:
$ tar -xzf roundup-2.1.0.tar.gz
  1. Move the extracted Roundup directory to /opt/roundup:
$ mv roundup-2.1.0 /opt/roundup
  1. Change directory to /opt/roundup and install Roundup using pip:
$ cd /opt/roundup
$ pip install .
  1. Once installed, create a Roundup instance directory where your issue tracker data will be stored:
$ mkdir /opt/roundup/mytracker
  1. Generate the tracker configuration:
$ cd /opt/roundup/mytracker
$ roundup-admin /opt/roundup/config.ini install
  1. Start the Roundup web server:
$ roundup-server /opt/roundup/mytracker
  1. Access your Roundup tracker by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8915/.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Roundup Issue Tracker on your NetBSD system. You can now customize your tracker to suit your needs and start tracking issues.