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- Use action helper so that Plinth can run unprivilaged and action script can run as root. - Use Status-Fd feature of apt-get to report progress. Don't report much detail. - Capture all stderr of the apt-get process and present it only in case of failure. - Remove package installation using PackageKit. Remove dependency on PackageKit. - Merge --setup package installation with regular package installation. This should fix the following problems: - PackageKit throws errors when APT encounters an error and later corrects them and proceeds well. This is reported upstream but not fixed. - PackageKit does not install recommends by default and there is no easy way to tell it to do so. - In some rare cases, PackageKit could get stuck for interactive input even though interactive flag is set to false. - PackageKit does not work without network manager connections. (Could have been mitigated by altering packagekit configuration). - PackageKit glib library leaks file descriptors after each operation. This leads to running out of fds during long running refresh operations such as OpenVPN setup. (This should have subsided by not checking package install with the new setup mechanism.)] Known issues: - In development mode, inside action scripts the python modules are always loaded from system path and not development directory. - With PackageKit it is possible to run multiple operations simultaneously. Others would wait while the first is being installed. With new implementation, the others error out unable to obtain lock.
Plinth
Plinth - a web front end for administering FreedomBox
Description
FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal communications. It is a networking appliance designed to allow interfacing with the rest of the Internet under conditions of protected privacy and data security. It hosts applications such as blog, wiki, website, social network, email, web proxy and a Tor relay, on a device that can replace your Wi-Fi router, so that your data stays with you.
Plinth is a web interface to administer the functions of the FreedomBox. It is extensible and provides various applications of FreedomBox as modules. Each module or application provides simplified user interface to control the underlying functionality. As FreedomBox can act as a wireless router, it is possible to configure networking from Plinth. Plinth also allows configuration of basic system parameters such as time zone, hostname and automatic upgrades.
You can find more information about Plinth on the Plinth Wiki page, the FreedomBox Wiki and the FreedomBox Manual.
Getting Started
See the INSTALL file for additional details and dependencies. To install run:
$ sudo python3 setup.py install
Run Plinth on the local system with:
$ sudo plinth
Contributing
See the HACKING file for contributing to Plinth.
Localization
