flectra Installation Steps

This documents for How to install Flectra in Linux and Windows. This documents provide installation steps.

Step :1
Execute the following command in root to install PostgreSQL server :

#apt-get install postgresql -y  

Step :2
Flectra provides a repository for you can used with Linux enviornment Like 
Debian and Ubuntu. It can be used to install Flectra by using command in root :

# wget -O - https://nightly.flectra.com/flectra.key | apt-key add -
# echo "deb http://nightly.flectra.com/11.0/nightly/deb/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/flectra.list
# apt-get update && apt-get install flectra

You can then use the usual apt-get upgrade command to keep your installation up-to-date. 

Step :3
You can use repository as well 'deb' package downloaded here :

Community Edition : Flectrahq

note : if Python is already installed, make sure it is 3.5 or above, previous versions are not compatible with Flectra.If python is not install than install first.

Step :4
Requier python lib for flectra : 

# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && sudo 
apt-get install postgresql postgresql-server-dev-9.5 build-essential 
python3-pillow python3-lxml python-ldap3 python3-dev python3-pip 
python3-setuptools npm nodejs git gdebi libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev  
libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libjpeg-dev -y

Step : 5
Create user in postgres : 

# su - postgres -c "createuser -s $USER"

Step : 6

# npm install -g less less-plugin-clean-css -y && ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

Step : 7
Wkhtmltopdf version installation :

# cd /tmp && wget https://downloads.wkhtmltopdf.org/0.12/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb && sudo gdebi -n wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb && rm wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb

# ln -s /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/ && ln -s /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin/