Learn the command and steps to install the free open source accounting software – Akaunting on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa.
If you want to install Akaunting for a demo on a local server or for permanent purposes on a cloud/hosting VPS server then here is the tutorial to guide you on the steps for the installation of Akaunitng on Ubuntu, Debian, and other similar Linux.
Akaunting is free and open-source accounting software that uses PHP & MySQL to run and is available on GitHub. Thus, no need to use any client or the installation of accounting software on every system of a company or home. Any user who wants to use the Akaunting for small and medium business or personal usage can access it locally or remotely with the help of the internet and browser, once installed.
It provides a web interface like some WordPress-based websites and the procedure of its setup is also similar to it. That’s why it is not only user-friendly but also a device too. Yes, we can use it on smartphones and tablets as well.
Steps to Install Akaunting software on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 LTS
1: Update Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04
Run the system update command to install the available updates and also to refresh the APT package index cache.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
2. Install Apache server for Akaunting
We need a web server to run PHP-based web applications such as Akuanting. Hence, let’s install the popular Apache web server on Ubuntu using the given command.
sudo apt install apache2
3. Enable and Start Apache
Once the installation procedure is completed on your server, run the following commands to enable and start the webserver along with system boot.
sudo systemctl enable --now apache2
4. Install the MariaDB server on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04
To store financial data created by the Akaunting software, we need some database that would be provided by MariaDB. However, you can also use PostgreSQL and SQLite.
sudo apt install mariadb-server
4. Enable MySQL services
After setting up MySQL, just like Apache, we also have to enable and start this database service at boot level, which means whenever our system reboots, Apache and MySQL services should start automatically.
sudo systemctl enable --now mysql
Once the installation is completed, secure your Database by setting up a root password and removing unnecessary access.
sudo mysql_secure_installation
The given questions will ask by the system, the example of answers is also given below:
Enter current password for root (enter for none): Press ENTER Set root password? [Y/n]: Y New password: Set-your-new-password Re-enter new password: Set-your-new-password Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] Y Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] Y Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] Y Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] Y
5. Akaunting database setup
Now using the following commands to create a database that we will use in this open-source accounting software. It will be the same for any Linux OS.
Note: Replace the red color text with whatever you want to use. h2smedia is the database name while h2s is the users and your-pass is the password.
sudo mysql
CREATE DATABASE h2smedia;
CREATE USER 'h2s'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your-pass';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON h2smedia.*TO'h2s'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
flush privileges;
exit;
6. Install PHP
The install Akaunting, the minimum PHP version we need to set up for this open-source accounting software is PHP 8.0 or higher.
For Ubuntu 22.04, you can simply run the given command to install PHP 8.x version.
sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-bcmath php-common php-imap php-mbstring php-xmlrpc php-soap php-gd php-xml php-intl php-mysql php-cli php-ldap php-zip php-curl
However, For Ubuntu 20.04 will not have the PHP 8.0 version using the default system repository. Therefore to have the latest PHP 8.0 version, we need to add a PPA repo, here are the commands to follow:
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php -y
sudo apt install php-imagick php8.0-common php8.0-mysql php8.0-gd php8.0-bcmath php8.0-curl php8.0-zip php8.0-xml php8.0-mbstring php8.0-bz2 php8.0-intl
For PHP 8.1 you can replace 8.0 with 8.1 in the above command.
Run:
sudo update-alternatives --config php
Select PHP 8.0 as the default system version.
7. Install Akaunting on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04
In this step, we will download the latest release file of the Akaunting free software and then extract the same in the public web folder for further usage.
wget -O Akaunting.zip https://akaunting.com/download.php?version=latest
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/akaunting/
sudo apt install unzip
sudo unzip Akaunting.zip -d /var/www/akaunting/
Now, change the permission of the cloned folder:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/akaunting/
Now give the apache user full read and write permission:
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/akaunting/
8. Configure the Apache site configuration file for Akaunting
Here, we will create an Apache site configuration file for Akaunting to tell it where to look at the folder to execute the files and what other things should it follow.
sudo apt install nano
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/akaunting.conf
Now add the following lines exactly as they are here including space and break:
Replace the red text with your domain or values.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/akaunting/
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory /var/www/akaunting/>
Options +FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
To save and exit the nano editor, press: the Ctrl+X keys and type: Y, and then hit the Enter button.
Enable the configuration and rewrite modules.
sudo a2ensite akaunting.conf
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
Finally, restart the apache to make the changes into effect.
sudo systemctl restart apache2
9: Setup Akaunting Dashboard
Now, that everything is ready, go to your browser and open the server IP address or domain name (if you are installing it on cloud or VPS hosting).
Here, we are installing Akaunting for a demo on our local server, thus we are using the local IP address of the same.
http://server-ip-address
or
http://domain-name.com
As you point the domain or IP to access the server, a setup page of the Akaunting will open. First, select the language in which you want to install it, by default it will be English.
Add the details of the MySQL database which we have created in this article.
Add the details of the company along with the admin email and password which will be used to access this free accounting software from anywhere.
Add your company and Tax details. To get the API key click on the link, create an Akaunting account, and copy the API to paste in.
Finally, the Dashboard of the software will be in front of you. Now, start performing your financial calculations, creating invoices, adding bills, managing cash flow, expense tracking, and more…
To know more about the setting of this open source accounting software, refer to the official documentation page.
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