In this tutorial, we will be installing MicroBin which is available on GitHub at https://github.com/szabodanika/microbin. MicroBin is a small, fast, and simple pastebin server written in Go.
We will be installing MicroBin on Alpine Linux, a lightweight Linux distribution.
Before we begin, make sure you have access to an Alpine Linux Latest distribution and have administrative privileges to install software.
Git is required to download the MicroBin source code from GitHub. To install Git, run the following command:
sudo apk add git
Next, we will clone the MicroBin repository from GitHub. To do this, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/szabodanika/microbin.git
This will create a directory named microbin in your current working directory which contains the source code for MicroBin.
MicroBin requires Go version 1.10 or higher to compile. To install Go, run the following command:
sudo apk add go
We also need to install the musl-dev package which provides C library headers required by Go. To install musl-dev, run the following command:
sudo apk add musl-dev
Now that we have installed the necessary packages, we can build MicroBin. Change to the microbin directory using the following command:
cd microbin
Then, build MicroBin by running the following command:
go build
This should create an executable binary named microbin in the current directory.
To run MicroBin, simply execute the microbin binary.
./microbin
By default, MicroBin listens on port 9000. You can verify that MicroBin is running by navigating to http://localhost:9000 in your web browser.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed MicroBin on Alpine Linux!
In this tutorial, we learned how to install MicroBin on Alpine Linux Latest. We walked through the steps of installing Git, cloning the MicroBin repository, installing dependencies, building the MicroBin binary, and running MicroBin. If you encountered any issues during installation, please consult the MicroBin documentation or the Alpine Linux documentation for further assistance.
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