How to Install Docspell on OpenBSD

Docspell is a powerful and free document management system. It allows you to manage and organize all of your documents in an efficient and user-friendly manner. Docspell is available for OpenBSD, and in this tutorial, we will show you how to install it on your system.

Step 1: Install Java

Before we can install Docspell, we need to make sure that Java is installed on our system. OpenBSD comes with OpenJDK pre-installed, but if you need to install Java, you can do so by running the following command:

$ doas pkg_add openjdk

This will install OpenJDK on your system.

Step 2: Download Docspell

Next, we need to download the latest version of Docspell from the official website. You can download the latest version of Docspell from https://docspell.org.

$ cd /tmp
$ ftp https://docspell.org/files/docspell-latest.tar.gz

Step 3: Extract Docspell

Once you have downloaded the Docspell tarball, you need to extract it to the desired installation location. In this example, we will extract it to the /opt/docspell directory.

$ doas mkdir /opt/docspell
$ doas tar zxvf docspell-latest.tar.gz -C /opt/docspell --strip-components=1

Step 4: Configure Docspell

Docspell requires a configuration file before it can be started. Create the necessary configuration files using the following command:

$ cd /opt/docspell/config
$ cp config.properties.sample config.properties
$ cp server.properties.sample server.properties

Step 5: Start Docspell

Finally, we can start Docspell by running the following command:

$ cd /opt/docspell
$ java -jar docspell.war

This will start the Docspell server on your system. You can now access Docspell by visiting http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Docspell on OpenBSD.