DietPi-Software | Traccar

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• Software title | Traccar
• Short description | Traccar is the leading GPS tracking software. Vehicle and personal tracking. Self hosting and cloud-based solution. Real time view, reports, notifications.
• Official URL | https://www.traccar.org/
• GitHub URL | https://github.com/traccar/traccar
• Official install documentation | https://www.traccar.org/linux/

Are there similar/alternative software titles available with DietPi-Software?
No

What makes your requested software better than the above solutions, if available?

There are no alternatives on DietPi.

How can DietPi make the installation easier or compatible, than following the install instructions or do APT installation, if available?

It would be nice, that DietPi, manage the installation of all the packages needed of java.

The java version installed by default is 32 bits, on 64 bits we need this steps:

wget https://github.com/tananaev/traccar/releases/download/v4.8/traccar-linux-arm-4.8.zip
unzip traccar-linux-arm-4.8.zip
rm traccar-linux-arm-4.8.zip
sudo ./traccar.run
apt install default-jre-headless
rm /opt/traccar/jre/bin/java
ln -s /usr/bin/java /opt/traccar/jre/bin/java
reboot

Can you provide the installation steps that you would suggest DietPi-Software to do?

Install script:

#!/bin/bash
curl -L https://github.com/tananaev/traccar/releases/download/v5.5/traccar-linux-arm-5.5.zip > traccar.zip
unzip traccar.zip
rm traccar.zip
sudo ./traccar.run
#apt install default-jre-headless (it would be necessary to dietpi to install that package on this step if arm64 is detected)
rm /opt/traccar/jre/bin/java
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-arm64/bin/java /opt/traccar/jre/bin/java
#run as non root user
useradd traccar
chown -R traccar:traccar /opt/traccar
mkdir /etc/systemd/system/traccar.service.d/
touch /etc/systemd/system/traccar.service.d/run-as-user.conf
cat > /etc/systemd/system/traccar.service.d/run-as-user.conf <<EOF
[Service]
User=traccar
Group=traccar
EOF
systemctl start traccar

Here as I put on the comments, it would be necessary to add the instalation of package 196 for those systems running arm64, if not these line are not necessary:

rm /opt/traccar/jre/bin/java
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-arm64/bin/java /opt/traccar/jre/bin/java

Update script:

#!/bin/bash
systemctl stop traccar
#make a backup of database files on /opt/traccar/data and config files on /opt/traccar/conf, I make this with the copy of dietpi-backup overwriting files
rm /opt/traccar
curl -L https://github.com/tananaev/traccar/releases/download/v5.5/traccar-linux-arm-5.5.zip > traccar.zip
unzip traccar.zip
rm traccar.zip
sudo ./traccar.run
#apt install default-jre-headless (it would be necessary to dietpi to install that package on this step if arm64 is detected)
chown -R traccar:traccar /opt/traccar
rm /opt/traccar/jre/bin/java
ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-17-openjdk-arm64/bin/java /opt/traccar/jre/bin/java
systemctl start traccar

Uninstall script:

systemctl stop traccar
#Remove systemd service
systemctl disable traccar
rm /etc/systemd/system/traccar.service
systemctl daemon-reload
#Remove traccar user
deluser traccar
#Remove traccar directory
rm -R /opt/traccar

It would be needed to change this:

curl -L https://github.com/tananaev/traccar/releases/download/v5.5/traccar-linux-arm-5.5.zip > traccar.zip

To something that gets dinamically the latest release, and not the number version.

Are you willing to help maintaining the software installation, e.g. in case of needed setup changes due to updates etc.? This is not needed, but could speed up our decision to implement it, as man power is always a topic wink.

Yes, but I'm not expert at all in coding.

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