PictShare is a free, open-source image sharing and hosting platform. It is easy to install, and in this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install PictShare on Clear Linux Latest.
Before installing PictShare on Clear Linux Latest, make sure you have the following:
PictShare requires some dependencies that need to be installed on the Clear Linux Latest system. To install the dependencies, use the following commands in the terminal:
sudo swupd bundle-add git devpkg-imagemagick
The command will install Git and ImageMagick. Git is required to clone PictShare's repository, while ImageMagick is required to handle image processing.
Now that we have installed the dependencies, we need to clone PictShare's repository. Use the following command to clone the repository:
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/chrisiaut/pictshare.git
The above command will clone the PictShare repository to the home directory.
Once the repository is cloned, we need to configure PictShare. Copy the sample configuration file to the root directory and rename it to pictshare.conf.
cd ~/pictshare
cp config/sample_pictshare.conf /etc/pictshare.conf
Now edit the /etc/pictshare.conf file and configure it according to your preferences. Make sure you set the root_url, storage_path and thumbnails_path parameters correctly.
sudo nano /etc/pictshare.conf
PictShare uses Composer to manage its dependencies, so we need to install it first. Use the following command to download and install Composer:
cd ~/pictshare
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
Once Composer is installed, you can install PictShare's dependencies:
sudo composer install
Now you can install PictShare:
sudo php composer.phar install
To start PictShare, use the following command:
php start.php
This command will start PictShare, and you should see a message similar to the following:
Server started on http://localhost:8080 ; press Ctrl-C to terminate.
You can now access PictShare by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8080. If you want PictShare to listen on a specific IP address or port, you can configure it in the /etc/pictshare.conf file.
In this tutorial, we went through the steps to install PictShare on Clear Linux Latest. We installed the dependencies, cloned PictShare, configured it, installed its dependencies, and started the platform. With PictShare installed, you can easily share and host your images.
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