{"id":1384,"date":"2021-01-27T02:28:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T01:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbykeller.spdns.de\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2021-01-27T02:28:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T01:28:54","slug":"installing-mayan-edms-on-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbykeller.spdns.de\/?p=1384","title":{"rendered":"Installing Mayan EDMS on Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Mayan EDMS documentation<\/a> offers two ways for the installation on a Ubuntu 20.04 LTS machine: The first one is via Docker, the second one is the direct installation. I went for the second (direct) option on a Raspberry Pi 4 running a Ubuntu 20.04 headless server. For the installation to succeed, you have to do some slight amendments to the installation instructions given in the Mayan EDMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installation error while building Python wheel for gevent (PEP 517)<\/code><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When I tried to install the Mayan EDMS from PyPi according to step 7 of the documentation I got the following error when the Python Wheel for gevent was built:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building wheels for collected packages: gevent\n  Building wheel for gevent (PEP 517) ... error\n  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:\n   command: \/opt\/mayan-edms\/bin\/python \/opt\/mayan-edms\/lib\/python3.8\/site-packages\/pip\/_vendor\/pep517\/_in_process.py build_wheel \/tmp\/tmpjf61jtxv\n       cwd: \/tmp\/pip-install-4o2pfult\/gevent_ca6fdc0ed0854e36bd21af7af5a2ba5c\n  Complete output (342 lines):\n[...]\n  ----------------------------------------\n  ERROR: Failed building wheel for gevent\nFailed to build gevent\nERROR: Could not build wheels for gevent which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
The solution to the issue can be found in the github issues section for gevent<\/a>. For building the Python wheel, we need make<\/code>, so the simple solution is to install make<\/code> to your Ubuntu system (sudo apt install make<\/code>) or to add it to the list of requirements that are installed in step one of the documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Initialization of project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
When running the following command in step 10, be aware that it will take some time until you get a response in the command window. I first made the error and thought that the multiline shell command was incomplete. So I hit Crtl-C and ran directly into the trouble the documentation warned of, that I lost my admin user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you happen to have the same problem, you have to delete your mayan postgresql database and drop the mayan user and then repeat step 9:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ubuntu@mayan:~$ sudo -u postgres psql -c "DROP DATABASE mayan"\nubuntu@mayan:~$ sudo -u postgres psql -c "DROP USER mayan"\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Further questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How can I access my Mayan?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
After successfully installing everything, the main question was: How the heck can I access my Mayan installation? Fact is that the installation does not run on port 80. Using sudo netstat -plunt<\/code> I found out that port 8000<\/strong> is listening to the outside world. And that will take your browser to the initial login page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is the mayan<\/code> user set up during installation also the Mayan admin?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The answer is: no. During installation of your mayan system, you set up a couple of users that ran “under the hood”:<\/p>\n\n\n\n