This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Ghost, a popular open-source blogging platform, on Arch Linux.
Before we begin, please ensure that you have the following installed on your system:
If you do not have these already installed, you can install them using the following commands:
sudo pacman -S nodejs npm
This should install both Node.js and NPM on your system.
We will now proceed with the installation of Ghost. To do so, follow the given steps:
First, you need to download the latest version of Ghost from the official website. You can download the latest stable release using the following command:
wget https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip
This should download the latest version of Ghost as a zip file to your system.
Once the download is complete, extract the zip file to a directory of your choice. You can do this using the following command:
unzip ghost-latest.zip -d ghost
This should extract all the files to the ‘ghost’ folder.
Ghost can be managed using a CLI tool called Ghost-CLI. To install Ghost-CLI, execute the following command:
npm install -g ghost-cli
This should install Ghost-CLI on your system.
We will now install Ghost using Ghost-CLI. To do so, navigate to the ‘ghost’ folder and execute the following command:
ghost install
Ghost-CLI will guide you through the installation process. If everything goes well, you should see a message stating that Ghost has been installed.
Once Ghost is installed, you can start it using the following command:
ghost start
This should start Ghost on your system. You can then access the Ghost site by visiting ‘http://localhost:2368’ in your browser.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Ghost on Arch Linux. You can now begin customizing your blog and making it your own. Thank you for reading this tutorial.
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