Installing Scoold on Alpine Linux latest

Scoold is an open-source Q&A platform built on top of the popular Stack Exchange software. In this tutorial, we will show how to install Scoold on Alpine Linux latest.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure that you have the following requirements:

• A running instance of Alpine Linux latest
• Root access or sudo privileges

Installation

1. Start by updating the packages on your system:

sudo apk update

2. Next, install the following dependencies required for Scoold:

sudo apk add openjdk8 git

3. Clone the Scoold repository from Github:

git clone https://github.com/Erudika/scoold.git

4. Change directory to the Scoold folder:

cd scoold

5. Build the Scoold application using Maven:

mvn clean install

6. Once the build process completes, start the Scoold server:

java -jar target/scoold-*.jar

Note: Replace "*" with the version number of the Scoold release.

7. Scoold will now start and listen on the default port 8080. Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Scoold on Alpine Linux latest.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed the steps for installing Scoold on Alpine Linux latest. Scoold is a powerful and customizable Q&A platform that can help you build a community-driven knowledge base for your organization.

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