This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing Paperless-ngx, a document management system, on Clear Linux Latest. We will be using the command line for all installation processes.
Before we begin, make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your Clear Linux system:
To check whether you have these prerequisites installed, run the following commands:
which curl wget tar git docker-compose
If any of these commands does not exist, you will need to install the missing prerequisite by running the following command:
sudo swupd bundle-add curl wget tar git docker-compose
First, we need to clone the Paperless-ngx repository onto our Clear Linux system. To do this, run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/jonaswinkler/paperless-ng.git
This will clone the latest release of Paperless-ngx onto your system.
Next, we need to create a .env file to set the environment variables for our Paperless-ngx installation. To do this, navigate to the paperless-ng directory that we just cloned and run the following command:
cp example.env .env
This will create a copy of the example.env file and name it .env. You can edit this file to customize your installation options, such as setting up an admin account.
Now, we need to build the Docker containers for Paperless-ngx. To do this, run the following command:
docker-compose build
This command will build the containers required for Paperless-ngx.
Once the Docker containers have been built, we can now start them. Run the following command:
docker-compose up -d
This will start the Docker containers in detached mode.
You can now access Paperless-ngx by navigating to http://<your server's IP address> in your browser. You will be prompted to create an admin account and set up the initial configuration for Paperless-ngx.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Paperless-ngx on Clear Linux Latest!
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