Trac is a web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system developed by the guys at Edgewall. It provides an interface to Subversion and an integrated wiki.

In response to popular demand (OK, one person who said yes when I asked) I have created a VMWare appliance so people can try out Trac easily.

You can download the appliance here. WARNING: it's 238 Mb!

It is based on Debian 3.1, and includes Subversion 1.1.4 (from Debian) and Trac 0.9.5 (downloaded and installed by me).

Installation

1. Download and install the free VMWare Player from VMWare.

2. Unzip the downloaded file VMWare-Trac-1.0.zip (238 Mb) and double-click on VirtualTracServer.vmx

3. When the VM has booted up, see the console for instructions on accessing Trac with your browser.

The root password on the machine is tracroot; there is also a user trac with password trac - trac's home directory is where the default Trac and Subversion repositories live. You can use these, or set up your own.

For more details on setting up a Trac project of your own, see here.

I recommend using the PuTTY client for logging into the system, copying files in & out, etc. If you dump an existing Subversion repository (svnadmin dump), you can transfer it into the VM, load it up (svnadmin load), and you're up and running.

Enjoy!