Learn how to – How To Install GLPI on Ubuntu 22.04/20.04/18.04

Learn how to – How To Install GLPI on Ubuntu 22.04/20.04/18.04.

How to Install GLPI on Ubuntu 22.04/20.04/18.04?. GLPI is a powerful open source IT service management (ITSM) software tool designed to help you plan and easily manage your IT operations. GLPI allows you to solve problems more efficiently.

Its segmentation feature makes it easy to split entities based on their respective administrative policies and allowed expenditure. It has been argued that GLPI support management of large IT infrastructures with millions of assets.

We also have installation guides for CentOS 7 / Fedora, CentOS /RHEL 8.

Features of GLPI

Here are the top features of GLPI

• Inventory Management – For computers, computers, peripherals, network printers e.t.c.
• Item lifecycle management
• Incidents, requests, problems and changes management
• Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
• Licenses management (ITIL compliant)
• Management of warranty and financial information (purchase order, warranty and extension, damping)
• Management of contracts, contacts, documents related to inventory items
• Knowledge base and Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Asset reservation

All features of GLPI are available on the project website.

Install GLPI on Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04

We will cover the steps of installing GLPI on Ubuntu LTS in the remaining sections. Before you can follow this guide along, you need to have a fresh installation of Ubuntu and user account with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Update Ubuntu

As usual, ensure your packages list is up to date.

sudo apt update

You can also upgrade installed packages by running the following command.

sudo apt -y upgrade

Step 2: Install MariaDB database server

GLPI requires a relational database to store its data. Let’s install MariaDB on Ubuntu Linux system by running the following commands:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install mariadb-server
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Create a database and user for GLPI.

$ sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE glpi;
CREATE USER 'glpi'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'StrongDBPassword';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON glpi.* TO 'glpi'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Step 3: Install PHP and Apache

We need to have Apache web server and PHP installed for GLPI to run and be accessed from a web interface.

sudo apt -y install php php-{curl,zip,bz2,gd,imagick,intl,apcu,memcache,imap,mysql,cas,ldap,tidy,pear,xmlrpc,pspell,mbstring,json,iconv,xml,gd,xsl}

Then install Apache and its PHP module.

sudo apt -y install apache2 libapache2-mod-php

Add the httpOnly flag to the cookie:

$ sudo vim /etc/php/*/apache2/php.ini
session.cookie_httponly = on

Step 4: Download and Install GLPI

Download the latest stable release of GLPI. It follows a semantic versioning scheme, on 3 digits, where the first one is the major release, the second the minor and the third the fix release.

Check for the latest stable release on the Downloads page. As of this writing, this is 10.0.5.

sudo apt-get -y install wget curl
VER=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/glpi-project/glpi/releases/latest|grep tag_name|cut -d '"' -f 4)
wget https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi/releases/download/$VER/glpi-$VER.tgz

Uncompress the downloaded the archive:

tar xvf glpi-$VER.tgz

Move the created glpi folder to the /var/www/htmldirectory.

sudo mv glpi /var/www/html/

Give Apache user ownership of the directory:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/

Step 5: Finish GLPI installation

Visit your server IP or hostname URL on /glpi. If it is your local machine, you can use: http://127.0.0.1/glpi/install/install.php

On the first page, Select your language.

Accept License terms and click “Continue“.

Choose ‘Install‘ for a completely new installation of GLPI.

Confirm that the Checks for the compatibility of your environment with the execution of GLPI is successful.

Configure Database connection

Select glpi database to initialize.

Finish the other setup steps to start using GLPI.

You should get the login page.

Default logins / passwords are:

• glpi/glpi for the administrator account
• tech/tech for the technician account
• normal/normal for the normal account
• post-only/postonly for the postonly account

On first login, you’re asked to change the password. Please set new password before configuring GLPI. This is done under Administration > Users.

This marks the end of installing GLPI on Ubuntu 22.04/20.04/18.04. The next sections are about adding assets and other IT Management stuff for your infrastructure/environment. For this, please refer to the official GLPI documentation.

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