Yacy is a peer-to-peer search engine that works by crawling web pages and indexing them on a decentralized network. In this tutorial, we will go through the process of installing Yacy on Arch Linux.
You will need to have the following dependencies installed on your Arch Linux system:
If you don't have Java installed, use the following command to install it:
sudo pacman -S jre-openjdk
If you don't have Git installed, use the following command to install it:
sudo pacman -S git
Once you've installed the dependencies, use the following command to clone the Yacy repository:
git clone https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server.git
After cloning the repository, navigate to the Yacy directory:
cd yacy_search_server
Run the following command to build Yacy:
./gradlew build
Once the build process completes, start the Yacy server using the following command:
./startYACY.sh
This should start the Yacy server on your local machine. You can access the Yacy search engine by navigating to http://localhost:8090/ in your browser.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install and set up Yacy on Arch Linux. Now you can explore the decentralized search engine and use it to search for content on the web.
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