Snippet Box is a simple, yet powerful snippet manager for developers, and Arch Linux is a popular, reliable Linux distribution. In this tutorial, we will be installing Snippet Box on Arch Linux.
Before installing Snippet Box, we need to install some dependencies that are necessary for the application to function properly.
sudo pacman -S go
We need to clone the Snippet Box repository from GitHub to our local machine.
git clone https://github.com/pawelmalak/snippet-box.git
Navigate to the cloned repository and build the package using the following command.
cd snippet-box
go build -o snippet-box
Once the package is built, we can run the following command to install Snippet Box.
sudo cp snippet-box /usr/local/bin
To test the installation, run the following command.
snippet-box
This should start the Snippet Box server on port 4000.
In this tutorial, we have installed Snippet Box on Arch Linux. Snippet Box provides an easy-to-use solution for managing code snippets, and Arch Linux is a reliable Linux distribution, making this a great combo for developers.
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