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Vervis is still in early development. These instructions may be incomplete and/or slightly outdated. At the time of writing, you can get a running Vervis instance if you follow the steps below.
Check the version of OpenSSL installed on your system. For example:
$ apt show openssl
Currently Vervis is using a slightly old software configuration, and until I fix that, it doesn't build with OpenSSL 1.1 and needs the older 1.0 or 1.0.1 version. If your distro has 1.1, see if you can grab 1.0 or 1.0.1 in some way, either through the distro package or by downloading OpenSSL manually from its website, or some alternative package manager such as GNU Guix.
Install stack. To install stack, go to its website and follow the instructions. If you have some old version, such as one installed from FPComplete's old debian repo, you may need to upgrade it.
Install Darcs. You can grab it from your distro, e.g.:
$ sudo apt install darcs
If you're going to create a Git repository on Vervis, you'll need Git too, you can install it from a distro package too, e.g.:
$ sudo apt install git
Clone the Vervis repo:
$ darcs clone https://dev.seek-together.space/s/fr33domlover/r/vervis
$ cd vervis
Install GHC. Unless you prefer to use a distro package or PPA or some other source, the easiest way is to install via stack:
$ stack setup
Check in stack.yaml near the top which extra repos are required. At the time
of writing, there are 4 of them (hit-harder, hit-graph, hit-network and
ssh). Then clone them. For example:
$ darcs clone https://dev.seek-together.space/s/fr33domlover/r/ssh
Some of those extra repos are at hub.darcs.net and some at
dev.seek-together.space/s/fr33domlover/r, I'm sorry I'm not just listing the
URLs here. These things have been changing often, but once they stabilize I
will update the docs, and also make releases of all these extra libraries.
Update stack.yaml to specify that path in the packages section if needed:
$ vim stack.yml
Generate a new SSH key with a blank password:
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -f config/ssh-host-key
Install PostgreSQL. You'll need the server and the client library development files.
$ sudo apt-get install postgresql libpq-dev
Switch to postgres system user:
$ sudo su - postgres
Create a PostgreSQL user.
With password:
$ createuser --no-createdb --no-createrole --no-superuser --encrypted --pwprompt vervis
No password (if you run Vervis as a user by the same name as the DB user):
$ createuser --no-createdb --no-createrole --no-superuser vervis
Create a PostgreSQL database:
$ createdb --encoding=UTF8 --owner=vervis vervis
Update the settings to specify correct database connection details and other settings.
$ cp config/settings-default.yaml config/settings.yml
$ vim config/settings.yml
Build.
$ stack build
Run.
$ stack exec vervis
Browse to http://localhost:3000 and have fun!
yesod devel is another way to run the application, useful for rapid
development, but I haven't been using it and I'm not sure it works, possibly I
broke something along the way. But feel free to try!