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---
title: "Installing Sourcehut"
date: 2020-08-27
draft: true
---
A few months back, at the beginning of quarantine, I installed a self-hosted
version of [SourceHut](https://sourcehut.org) for my git repos. In the end, I
only actually set up and used the following services:
- meta.sr.ht
- git.sr.ht
- todo.sr.ht
- man.sr.ht
- paste.sr.ht
- dispatch.sr.ht
I did not end up setting up lists.sr.ht or builds.sr.ht, either because I wasn't
confident enough to do so (lists) or I didn't have the resources or knowledge
(builds). Now, I figured that I have learned more and want to give it another
crack. This post will go over the methods I use to install Sourcehut on my local
machine and any pitfalls I encounter.
The laptop that I used for this is a Thinkpad T430 running Arch Linux.
## Packages
Sourcehut upstream provides installable [packages](https://man.sr.ht/packages)
for Alpine, Arch, and Debian. The Arch Linux mirror is at
[https://mirror.sr.ht/archlinux/sr.ht](https://mirror.sr.ht/archlinux/sr.ht). To
use the repository with Pacman, I had to add the following snippet to
`/etc/pacman.conf`.
```
[sr.ht]
Server = https://mirror.sr.ht/archlinux/sr.ht
```
I also had to import the signing key, which took a little while, because I had
to configure Pacman to use a different keyserver since the MIT one wasn't
responding. To receive the keys, I had to run the following commands
```
# Get the key
sudo pacman-key --recv-keys C0AAFC1676BD998617C94C42DC59670F1EB0A189
# Sign the key
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key C0AAFC1676BD998617C94C42DC59670F1EB0A189
```
This made installing all the Sourcehut packages a lot easier than building from
source, which I tried to do my first time around.
## meta.sr.ht
Since I had the package repository set up properly, all I had to do was `yay -S
meta.sr.ht`, and both meta.sr.ht and the dependencies were downloaded. One
dependency, `python-psycopg2` is marked as an optional dependency, but is
required.
### Configuration
Each sr.ht service maintains a `config.example.ini` file in its' git repository.
For meta.sr.ht, that file is
[here](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/meta.sr.ht/tree/master/config.example.ini)
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