Debian installation

1. Install dependencies

   sudo apt install curl gcc g++ make libpq-dev
   

2. Install Node.js & yarn

   curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo bash -
   sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
   sudo npm install -g yarn
   

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3. Setup with postgreSQL (optional as you can choose sqlite)

   sudo apt-get install postgresql
   # Create the database
   su postgres -c psql
   postgres=# create database gancio;
   postgres=# create user gancio with encrypted password 'gancio';
   postgres=# grant all privileges on database gancio to gancio;
   

4. Create a user to run gancio from

   sudo adduser --group --system --shell /bin/false --home /opt/gancio gancio
   

5. Install Gancio

   sudo yarn global add --silent https://gancio.org/latest.tgz 2> /dev/null
   

6. Setup systemd service and reload systemd

   sudo wget http://gancio.org/gancio.service -O /etc/systemd/system/gancio.service
   sudo service daemon-reload
   

7. Start gancio service (this should listen on port 13120)

   sudo service gancio start
   

8. Setup nginx as a proxy

9. Point your web browser to your domain

Upgrade

yarn global remove gancio
yarn cache clean
yarn global add --silent https://gancio.org/latest.tgz  2> /dev/null
sudo service gancio restart