INSTALL Open Gauquelin Database

This page describes how to run this web site on your local machine.
The procedure describes how to do on a Linux machine (tested on Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.4).
Normally, it should also work on Windows and MacOS, but has never been tested.

Prerequisites

You need to have installed on your machine :

The Go programming language (version 1.17 or higher) - See go documentation.
Postgresql database management system (version 12 or higher) - See postgresql documentation
Postgrest web server (version 8.0 or higher) - See postgrest documentation

Install the database

There are two solutions:

Download the postgresql dump and import it on your local postgresql.
Generate the database from scratch using g5 program - see page about g5 installation.

Install openg

openg is the name of the program which runs current site and permits to browse the database.

Clone the repository:

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/tig12/openg.git

Note: --depth=1 is optional, only useful to save up disk space and bandwidth.

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