Debian installation

1. Install dependencies

   sudo apt install curl gcc g++ make wget 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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Choose you database (sqlite, postgresql, mariadb, mysql)

1. Setup using postgreSQL (optional)

   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;
   

2. Setup using MariaDB (optional)

   sudo apt-get install mariadb
   sudo mysql
   MariaDB [(none)]> create database gancio;
   Query OK, 1 row affected (0.001 sec)
   MariaDB [(none)]> create user gancio identified by 'gancio';
   Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.011 sec)
   MariaDB [(none)]> grant all privileges on gancio.* to gancio;
   Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.009 sec)
   

3. Create a user to run gancio from

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

4. Install Gancio

   sudo yarn global add --silent https://gancio.org/latest.tgz
   

5. Setup systemd service and reload systemd

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

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

   sudo systemctl start gancio
   

7. Setup nginx as a proxy

8. Point your web browser to your domain

Upgrade

yarn global remove gancio
yarn cache clean
yarn global add --silent https://gancio.org/latest.tgz
sudo systemctl restart gancio