Drift is a simple tool that helps you track changes to a file's content. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Drift on Debian Latest.
Before we begin, we need to ensure that we have the following prerequisites:
Drift is available on GitHub, so we need to install Git in order to fetch the source code. Run the following command to install Git:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
Next, we need to clone the Drift repository from GitHub. Run the following command to clone the Drift repository:
git clone https://github.com/MaxLeiter/drift.git
This will create a directory called drift in your current working directory.
Drift requires a few dependencies to be installed before we can use it. Run the following command to install the required dependencies:
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-dev python3-setuptools
Now that we have Git and the required dependencies installed, we are ready to install Drift. Navigate into the drift directory that was created when you cloned the repository using the following command:
cd drift
Then, run the following command to install Drift:
sudo python3 setup.py install
This will install Drift on your system.
To verify that Drift has been installed correctly, run the following command:
drift --version
This should output the version number of the installed Drift.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Drift on Debian Latest. You are now ready to use Drift to track changes to your files.
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