How to Install RecipeSage on OpenSUSE Latest

In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install RecipeSage, a recipe management software, which is available on Github, on OpenSUSE latest operating system.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure that you have the following:

• A running installation of OpenSUSE latest
• A sudo user account

Step 1 - Install Required Dependencies

Open the terminal window and run the following command to install the dependencies required for RecipeSage:

sudo zypper install python3 python3-pip python3-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel zlib-devel gcc

This command will install Python 3, pip, development headers for libxml2, libxslt, and zlib, and GCC.

Step 2 - Download RecipeSage

Next, navigate to the directory where you want to save the RecipeSage code. In this case, we will use the home directory.

cd ~

Clone the RecipeSage code from Github using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/julianpoy/recipesage.git

This command will download the RecipeSage code to your home directory.

Step 3 - Install Python Dependencies

Navigate to the RecipeSage directory using the following command:

cd recipesage

Install the required Python dependencies using pip:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

This command will install all the required dependencies from the requirements.txt file.

Step 4 - Setup Database

Before we start the RecipeSage application, we need to create a new database in PostgreSQL for RecipeSage. If you don't have PostgreSQL installed, you can install it using the command:

sudo zypper install postgresql postgresql-server postgresql-devel

After installing PostgreSQL, initialize the database cluster and start the PostgreSQL service using the following commands:

sudo systemctl enable postgresql
sudo systemctl start postgresql

Now create a database user by running the following command:

sudo -u postgres createuser -P recipesage_user

It will prompt for the password for the new user. Enter a strong password and remember it, as we will use it later.

Next, create a new database for RecipeSage using the postgres user with the following command:

sudo -u postgres createdb -O recipesage_user recipesage

Step 5 - Configure Settings

By default, RecipeSage looks for the PostgreSQL database at localhost:5432. If PostgreSQL is running on a different machine or port, we need to update the settings.py file.

Open the settings.py file with your favorite text editor:

nano recipesage/settings.py

Find the line that reads:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
        'NAME': 'recipesage',
        'USER': 'recipesage_user',
        'PASSWORD': 'recipesage_password',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '5432',
    }
}

Update the USER and PASSWORD fields with the values you used when creating the database user in step 4.

Step 6 - Migrate Database

The final step is to migrate the database. In the RecipeSage directory, run the following command to create the required tables in the database:

python3 manage.py migrate

This command should run without any errors.

Step 7 - Start RecipeSage

Run the following command to start the RecipeSage development server:

python3 manage.py runserver

This will start the RecipeSage application at http://127.0.0.1:8000/. You can access it by opening a web browser and visiting that address.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured RecipeSage on OpenSUSE latest operating system.