Installation Guide

Installation of MultiFlexi is simple on Debian based systems. The installation process is done using Debian packages. The packages are available for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases.

Attention

The MultiFlexi packages are available for

  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)

  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)

  • Debian 13 (Trixie)

  • Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish)

  • Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat)

To install MultiFlexi using Debian packages, you can follow these steps:

  1. Prepare your system by running the following commands in a terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install lsb-release apt-transport-https bzip2 ca-certificates curl

  1. Add the MultiFlexi repository and key:

curl -sSLo /tmp/multiflexi-archive-keyring.deb https://repo.multiflexi.eu/multiflexi-archive-keyring.deb
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/multiflexi-archive-keyring.deb
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/repo.multiflexi.eu.gpg] https://repo.multiflexi.eu/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multiflexi.list

  1. Update the package sources:

sudo apt update

  1. Install MultiFlexi for the chosen database:

sudo apt install multiflexi-mysql

On fresh Ubuntu 22.04 (with database already installed), the installation command will look like this:

nymph@jammy:~$ sudo apt install multiflexi-mysql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
   anacron composer composer-debian dbconfig-common dbconfig-mysql javascript-common jq jsonlint libio-pty-perl libipc-run-perl libjq1 libjs-jquery
   libjs-jquery-datatables libjs-jquery-selectize.js libjs-microplugin.js libjs-sifter.js libonig5 libtime-duration-perl locales-all mailcap
   mime-support moreutils multiflexi php-auth-sasl php-cakephp-phinx php-cli php-common php-composer-ca-bundle php-composer-metadata-minifier
   php-composer-pcre php-composer-semver php-composer-spdx-licenses php-composer-xdebug-handler php-intl php-json-schema php-mail php-mail-mime
   php-mbstring php-mysql php-net-smtp php-net-socket php-pear php-psr-container php-psr-log php-react-promise php-symfony-console
   php-symfony-deprecation-contracts php-symfony-filesystem php-symfony-finder php-symfony-polyfill-php80 php-symfony-process
   php-symfony-service-contracts php-symfony-string php-vitexsoftware-ease-bootstrap4 php-vitexsoftware-ease-bootstrap4-widgets
   php-vitexsoftware-ease-core php-vitexsoftware-ease-fluentpdo php-vitexsoftware-ease-html php-vitexsoftware-ease-html-widgets php-xml php-yaml
   php8.1-cli php8.1-common php8.1-intl php8.1-mbstring php8.1-mysql php8.1-opcache php8.1-readline php8.1-xml php8.1-yaml unzip
Suggested packages:
   default-mta \| mail-transport-agent fossil mercurial subversion php-zip apache2 \| lighttpd \| httpd multiflexi-all php-symfony-event-dispatcher
   php-symfony-lock php-symfony-service-implementation php-vitexsoftware-ease-bootstrap zip
   The following NEW packages will be installed:
   anacron composer composer-debian dbconfig-common dbconfig-mysql javascript-common jq jsonlint libio-pty-perl libipc-run-perl libjq1 libjs-jquery
   libjs-jquery-datatables libjs-jquery-selectize.js libjs-microplugin.js libjs-sifter.js libonig5 libtime-duration-perl locales-all mailcap
   mime-support moreutils multiflexi multiflexi-mysql php-auth-sasl php-cakephp-phinx php-cli php-common php-composer-ca-bundle
   php-composer-metadata-minifier php-composer-pcre php-composer-semver php-composer-spdx-licenses php-composer-xdebug-handler php-intl
   php-json-schema php-mail php-mail-mime php-mbstring php-mysql php-net-smtp php-net-socket php-pear php-psr-container php-psr-log
   php-react-promise php-symfony-console php-symfony-deprecation-contracts php-symfony-filesystem php-symfony-finder php-symfony-polyfill-php80
   php-symfony-process php-symfony-service-contracts php-symfony-string php-vitexsoftware-ease-bootstrap4 php-vitexsoftware-ease-bootstrap4-widgets
   php-vitexsoftware-ease-core php-vitexsoftware-ease-fluentpdo php-vitexsoftware-ease-html php-vitexsoftware-ease-html-widgets php-xml php-yaml
   php8.1-cli php8.1-common php8.1-intl php8.1-mbstring php8.1-mysql php8.1-opcache php8.1-readline php8.1-xml php8.1-yaml unzip
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After this operation, 455 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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The package name may vary depending on the chosen database.

Note

  • The multiflexi-sqlite package is used for testing purposes in automated environments.

  • Only the multiflexi-mysql package is recommended for production use.

  • The multiflexi-postgresql package is not yet usable. Please fill GitHub issue if you want to help with development or testing.

  1. During the installation, you will be asked to configure the database.

Then installation will continue and finish.

Ubuntu 22.04 Installation Done

Note

Finally the configuration file is saved as /etc/multiflexi/multiflexi.env

  1. Check for available applications:

MultiFlexi is Only empty shell without of applications that can be installed on a server. The applications are available as Debian packages and can be installed on Debian-based systems like Ubuntu. The available applications can be checked by running the following command in a terminal

apt search multiflexi
MultiFlexi Apt Search

For more details about available applications, visit the MultiFlexi apps page.

Tip

To install all available applications, use the multiflexi-all meta package. For more details, visit the multiflexi-all GitHub repository.

For more information on how to perform the initial setup, please refer to the First Run Manual page.