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Dawood Khan Masood
Dawood Khan Masood

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Installing Forem on Ubuntu 18.04 (Part 7 - Forem)

#guide #selfhost

If there is anything you would like me to change, please comment. This section of the guide assumes you have already installed Elastic Search from the previous article.

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Prerequisites

Update your package lists by typing:

$ sudo apt-get update
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Install the development version of libcurl4 by typing:

$ sudo apt-get install libcurl4 libcurl4-openssl-dev -y
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Installing Forem

Clone 'Forem' from the source repository into '~/forem' by typing:

$ git clone https://github.com/forem/forem.git ~/forem
$ cd ~/forem
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Install bundler by typing:

$ gem install bundler
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Create 'application.yml' from the sample template (sample_application.yml). To do so, type:

$ cp .env_sample .env
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Run the ruby 'setup' file:

$ bin/setup
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Verify Forem is installed by typing:

$ bin/startup
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The output will be something like this:

== STARTING UP ==
14:05:32 web.1       | started with pid 68343
14:05:32 webpacker.1 | started with pid 68344
14:05:32 sidekiq.1   | started with pid 68345
14:05:37 webpacker.1 | ℹ ｢wds｣: Project is running at http://0.0.0.0:3035/
14:05:37 webpacker.1 | ℹ ｢wds｣: webpack output is served from /packs/
14:05:37 webpacker.1 | ℹ ｢wds｣: Content not from webpack is served from /home/hackhex/forem/public/packs
14:05:37 webpacker.1 | ℹ ｢wds｣: 404s will fallback to /index.html
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Akhil Naidu •

Create 'application.yml' from the sample template (sample_application.yml). To do so, type:

cp ./config/sample_application.yml ./config/application.yml This command has been updated to cp .env_sample .env in the Forem documentation.

So try to check it and if required update this guide accordingly. I updated it in Forem in Docker Guide, to stay authentic to Forem guide.

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Dawood Khan Masood Author •

Missed that part! Thank you for the correction. :)

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Madhan • • Edited on

Hi Akhil,

When i run the cmd "bin/setup" i am getting below error,

**ubuntu@ip-172-31-22-238:~/forem$ bin/setup
== Installing dependencies ==
The Gemfile's dependencies are satisfied
Successfully installed foreman-0.87.2
Parsing documentation for foreman-0.87.2
Done installing documentation for foreman after 0 seconds
1 gem installed
Yarn executable was not detected in the system.
Download Yarn at yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install

== Copying sample files ==

== Initializing the application ==

== Preparing database ==
rails aborted!
ActiveRecord::ConnectionNotEstablished: fe_sendauth: no password supplied
/home/ubuntu/forem/bin/rails:5:in <top (required)>'
/home/ubuntu/forem/bin/spring:10:inrequire'
/home/ubuntu/forem/bin/spring:10:in block in <top (required)>'
/home/ubuntu/forem/bin/spring:7:in'

Caused by:
PG::ConnectionBad: fe_sendauth: no password supplied
/home/ubuntu/forem/bin/rails:5:in <top (required)>'
/home/ubuntu/forem/bin/spring:10:inrequire'
/home/ubuntu/forem/bin/spring:10:in block in <top (required)>'
/home/ubuntu/forem/bin/spring:7:in'
Tasks: TOP => db:prepare
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

== Command ["bin/rails app_initializer:setup forem:setup"] failed ==**

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