Sigal is a simple, easy-to-use photo gallery generator written in Python. It allows you to quickly create beautiful photo galleries that can be easily shared with friends and family. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Sigal on Arch Linux.
To install Sigal, you need the following:
Follow these steps to install Sigal on Arch Linux:
Before starting the installation, make sure your system is up-to-date. You can do this by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo pacman -Syu
Sigal requires Python 3.x to be installed on your system. To install Python 3.x, use the following command:
sudo pacman -S python
Once Python is installed, you also need to install Pip, the package manager for Python. You can install Pip using the following command:
sudo pacman -S python-pip
Sigal is available on Github as a public repository. To access the repository, you need to install Git on your system. You can do this by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S git
Now that you have Git installed on your system, you can clone the Sigal repository using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/saimn/sigal.git
This will clone the Sigal repository to your current directory.
Change to the Sigal directory, and install Sigal using pip.
cd sigal
sudo pip install .
You have now installed Sigal on your system.
To create a new Sigal gallery, change to a directory containing your photos and enter the following command:
sigal build
This will create a new Sigal gallery in the output directory. You can customize the gallery by modifying the sigal.conf.py file in the Sigal directory.
In this tutorial, we have demonstrated how to install Sigal on Arch Linux. Once installed, you can easily create beautiful photo galleries that can be shared with friends and family.
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