Hindsight is a web-based tool from Mozilla Services that allows you to browse snapshots of previous versions of web pages. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Hindsight on Arch Linux.
Hindsight is a Python application, so we need to install Python and some packages before installing Hindsight. Open the terminal and run the following command to install Python and required packages.
sudo pacman -S python python-pip libffi libxslt libxml2
We can install Hindsight using the Python package manager called pip. Open the terminal and run the following command to install Hindsight.
sudo pip install mozilla-hindsight
After the installation completes, we can run the Hindsight command to verify the installation. Open the terminal and run the following command.
hindsight --help
This command should display the list of available options and commands, which indicates that Hindsight is installed successfully.
To start using Hindsight, we need to run the Hindsight web server using the following command.
sudo hindsight serve
This will start the Hindsight web server on port 8000. Now, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000/ to access Hindsight.
In this tutorial, we have installed Hindsight on Arch Linux using pip package manager. We have also verified the installation and run the Hindsight web server. Now you can use Hindsight to browse historical versions of web pages.
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