Support #738
Updated by Daniel Curtis about 8 years ago
This is a guide on installing the F-Droid server to serve a local android package repository on FreeBSD 9.
h2. Prepare the Environment
* Make sure the system is up to date:
<pre>
pkg update && pkg upgrade
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* Install a few dependencies:
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pkg install git python2 py27-pip py27-virtualenv bash jpeg openjdk
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* Add the fdroid user
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pw add user -n fdroid -m -s /bin/sh -c "F-Droid"
</pre>
h2. Install Android SDK
*+WARNING+*: The Android SDK is not supported on FreeBSD. Don't expect it to work out of the box.
* Download Android SDK:
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fetch http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz
</pre>
h2. Install F-Droid Server
* Switch to the fdroid user:
<pre>
su - fdroid
</pre>
* Clone the fdroid source:
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git clone https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver.git
</pre>
* Install the fdroid server:
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cd fdroidserver
virtualenv env/
source env/bin/activate
pip install -e .
python2 setup.py install
</pre>
* Exit from the fdroid user back into the root user:
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exit
</pre>
h2. Install Nginx
* Install nginx:
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pkg install nginx
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* Start and enable nginx at boot:
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echo 'nginx_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service nginx start
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* Create a configuration directory to make managing individual server blocks easier
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mkdir /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d
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* Edit the main nginx config file:
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vi /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
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#* And strip down the config file and add the include statement at the end to make it easier to handle various server blocks:
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worker_processes 1;
error_log /var/log/nginx-error.log;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
# Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
include /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}
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h3. Setup F-Droid Repo
* Create the fdroid repository directory:
<pre>
mkdir -p /usr/local/www/fdroid.example.com/fdroid
chown -R fdroid:www /usr/local/www/fdroid.example.com
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* Create the fdroid server block config file:
<pre>
vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/fdroid.example.com.conf
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#* And add the following:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
server_name fdroid.example.com;
autoindex on;
access_log /var/log/fdroid.example.com.log main;
location / {
root /usr/local/www/fdroid.example.com;
index index.html index.htm;
}
}
h3. Initialize the F-Droid Repo
* Switch to the fdroid user:
<pre>
su - fdroid
</pre>
* Initialize a bare F-Droid repository:
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cd /usr/local/www/fdroid.example.com/fdroid
fdroid init
</pre>
h2. Resources
* https://github.com/f-droid/fdroidserver
* https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Setup_an_FDroid_App_Repo
* https://f-droid.org/manual/fdroid.html#Simple-Binary-Repository