Snibox is a simple but powerful snippet manager that can help you organize and share code snippets, notes, and other types of data. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Snibox on Alpine Linux.
Before we can proceed with the installation, we need to make sure that the following prerequisites are met:
We need to install some required dependencies before we can install Snibox. Run the following command to install them:
sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade
sudo apk add --update nodejs npm postgresql-client
This will update the package manager database, upgrade existing packages and install nodejs, npm, and postgresql-client.
Snibox uses PostgreSQL as its database. We need to install it and start the service. Run the following commands to install PostgreSQL and start the service:
sudo apk add postgresql
sudo rc-service postgresql start
Once PostgreSQL is started, we need to create a user and a database for Snibox. We can create a new user named snibox with the following command:
sudo -u postgres createuser snibox
Now we can create a new database named snibox using the following command:
sudo -u postgres createdb snibox
We can now download and install Snibox. Run the following commands to download and install the application:
wget https://github.com/snibox/snibox/releases/download/v0.8.0/snibox-0.8.0.tar.gz
tar -xvf snibox-0.8.0.tar.gz
cd snibox
npm install
This will download the latest release of Snibox, extract it, and install the required dependencies.
Next, we need to configure Snibox by creating a configuration file. Run the following command to create it:
cp .env.example .env
This will create a new configuration file named .env based on the example file.
Now we need to edit the configuration file with our favorite text editor. We can use nano for this:
nano .env
Make sure to set the appropriate values for the following configuration parameters:
DATABASE_URL: The URL that PostgreSQL uses to connect to the database. The default value should work for our installation.COOKIE_SECRET: A secret value that is used to encrypt cookies. Set it to a random value of your choice.PORT: The port number that Snibox listens on. The default value is 3000, but you can choose any available unprivileged port.We can now start Snibox with the following command:
npm start
This will start the application, and you should see a message that says something like "Server started at http://localhost:3000".
Now you can open your web browser and visit the URL specified in the message. You should see the Snibox login page. If you can log in successfully, then Snibox is working correctly!
In this tutorial, we have gone through the steps to install Snibox on Alpine Linux. We installed the required dependencies, set up PostgreSQL, downloaded and installed Snibox, configured it, and finally started the application. With Snibox, you can now easily manage your code snippets, notes, and other data.
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