RecipeSage is an open source recipe management application that can be used to store, organize, and search for recipes. It is built using Python and is available on GitHub. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing RecipeSage on Arch Linux.
Before starting this tutorial, you need to have the following:
First, you need to install the required packages for RecipeSage to work. Open your terminal and enter the following command:
sudo pacman -S python-pip python-virtualenv zlib libmagic
The python-pip package is used to install Python packages, python-virtualenv is used to create a virtual environment, zlib and libmagic are used for compression and file type detection respectively.
Next, you need to clone the RecipeSage repository from GitHub. To do so, open your terminal and enter the following command:
git clone https://github.com/julianpoy/recipesage.git
This command will create a new directory named recipesage in your current working directory, which will contain the RecipeSage application.
Now, you need to create a virtual environment for RecipeSage. This will allow you to install and manage Python packages that are specific to RecipeSage, without affecting your system Python installation.
To create a virtual environment, enter the following command in your terminal:
cd recipesage
virtualenv -p $(which python3) env
This will create a new virtual environment in the env directory.
Next, you need to activate the virtual environment. This will allow you to install Python packages and run the RecipeSage application without affecting your system Python installation.
To activate the virtual environment, enter the following command in your terminal:
source env/bin/activate
Your terminal prompt should now be prefixed with (env) to indicate that you are running within the virtual environment.
With the virtual environment activated, you can now install the required Python packages for RecipeSage. To do so, enter the following command in your terminal:
pip install -r requirements.txt
This command will install all the required Python packages specified in the requirements.txt file.
Finally, you can run the RecipeSage application by entering the following command in your terminal:
python recipesage.py
This will start the RecipeSage server, which you can access by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:5000.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed and run RecipeSage on Arch Linux!
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