Postgres on Debian: # install apt install postgresql postgresql-client Setting up postgres (as root) # become postgres user su postgres # spawn postgres admin shell psql You'll get a prompt, enter the following: CREATE ROLE srnd WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'srndpassword'; CREATE DATABASE srnd WITH ENCODING 'UTF8' OWNER srnd; \q Change the username and password as desired. RabbitMQ on Debian: # install apt install rabbitmq-server Copy the rabbitmq configs and restart rabbitmq # as root cp ~/nntpchan/contrib/configs/rabbitmq/* /etc/rabbitmq/ systemctl restart rabbitmq-server