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This is a guide on installing the Galaxy Project along with Nginx and PostgreSQL on FreeBSD 9.

Prepare the Environment¶

• Make sure the system is up to date:
  

  pkg update && pkg upgrade
  

• Add the Galaxy user
  

  pw add user -n galaxy -m -s /bin/sh -c "Galaxy" 
  

• Install a few dependencies:
  

  pkg install python27 git gcc gmake autoconf automake libtool bison readline sqlite3 cmake postgresql94-client postgresql-libpqxx py27-pip py27-numpy py27-cheetah
  

Install Galaxy Project¶

• Switch to the galaxy user:
  

  su - galaxy
  

• Download the latest source code:
  

  git clone -b master https://github.com/galaxyproject/galaxy/
  

• Then exit the galaxy user back into root:
  exit
  

  cd /home/galaxy/galaxy
  

• Install the python dependencies:
  

  pip install -r /path/to/requirements.txt
  

• Next test that galaxy is setup and running correctly:
  

  sh run.sh
  

Resources¶

• https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/GetGalaxy
• https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Config/Performance/ProductionServer