Gollum is a simple and wiki-like web application that allows you to create and manage a Wiki. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Gollum on Debian.
Before we start with the installation, we recommend updating your system to the latest packages. Open your Terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Gollum is written in Ruby and Git is used to manage the repositories. Hence, we need to install Ruby and Git on our system.
To install the required packages, run the below command:
sudo apt-get install -y ruby-full git
Now, we are ready to install Gollum. To do that, run the following command in your Terminal.
sudo gem install gollum
The installation process may take some time, depending on your system configuration.
After installing Gollum, we can create a Wiki. First, create a directory where you want to host your Wiki. You can make it in the home directory. Run the following command:
mkdir -p ~/mywiki
Now navigate to the created directory.
cd ~/mywiki
Next, we need to initialize the Git repository, which will keep track of all the changes made in the Wiki. Run the below command:
git init
Once the repository is created, we can now start with our Wiki. Type the following command to start the Gollum server.
gollum
You may see below output:
[2021-06-25 23:44:06] INFO WEBrick 1.4.2
[2021-06-25 23:44:06] INFO ruby 3.0.0 (2020-12-25) [x86_64-linux-gnu]
== Sinatra/2.1.0 has taken the stage on 4567 for development with backup from WEBrick
[2021-06-25 23:44:06] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=26640 port=4567
Now open up your web browser and navigate to the http://localhost:4567 URL. You will see the Gollum web interface; you can start adding pages and content to your Wiki.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Gollum on Debian and create a new Wiki. Gollum is an easy-to-use web application that allows you to create a Wiki and manage your content effortlessly.
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