Installing Prologic Pastebin on Alpine Linux Latest

In this tutorial, we will be walking through the steps to install Prologic Pastebin on Alpine Linux Latest.

Prologic Pastebin is a minimalist pastebin service that allows users to securely store and share text snippets online. It is written in Python and can be used with any web browser.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure you have the following:

• Access to an Alpine Linux Latest machine
• Root access or sudo privileges
• Python 3.x installed

Step 1: Install Git

We need to install Git to clone the Prologic Pastebin repository from Github. Run the following command:

sudo apk add git

Step 2: Clone the Prologic Pastebin Repository

Now that Git is installed, you can clone the Prologic Pastebin repository using the following command:

git clone https://git.mills.io/prologic/pastebin.git

This will create a new directory called pastebin in your current working directory.

Step 3: Install Dependencies

Prologic Pastebin has several dependencies that need to be installed. Run the following command to install them:

sudo apk add python3 python3-dev py3-pip py3-cffi py3-setuptools py3-wheel build-base libffi-dev musl-dev

Step 4: Create a Virtual Environment

We will now create a Python virtual environment to install Prologic Pastebin and its dependencies in. This will keep our system Python installation clean.

Run the following command to create a new virtual environment:

python3 -m venv pastebin-venv

This will create a new directory called pastebin-venv in your current working directory.

Step 5: Activate the Virtual Environment

To activate the virtual environment, run the following command:

source pastebin-venv/bin/activate

You should now see (pastebin-venv) at the beginning of your command prompt.

Step 6: Install Prologic Pastebin

Now we can install Prologic Pastebin and its dependencies by running the following command:

pip install -r pastebin/requirements.txt

This will install all the necessary Python packages.

Step 7: Configure Prologic Pastebin

Prologic Pastebin has a default configuration file that we need to modify before we can use it.

Copy the sample configuration file by running the following command:

cp pastebin/pastebin.conf.sample pastebin/pastebin.conf

Open the pastebin.conf file in a text editor of your choice and modify the configuration parameters as desired.

Step 8: Start Prologic Pastebin

Once you have configured Prologic Pastebin, you can start the service by running the following command:

python3 pastebin/pastebin.py

You should see output similar to the following:

Running on http://127.0.0.1:8080/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

Congratulations! Prologic Pastebin is now running on your Alpine Linux Latest machine.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we walked through the steps to install Prologic Pastebin on Alpine Linux Latest. By following these steps, you now have a minimalist pastebin service that allows you to securely store and share text snippets online.

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