Before we can proceed with Postal installation, we need the following prerequisites:
Open your terminal and run the following command to update your system:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Postal requires some packages to be installed on our Debian Latest system. We can install them using the following command:
sudo apt install curl gnupg2 wget sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev nginx --no-install-recommends
Postal is not available in the Debian repository, so we need to add Postal repository. Run the following command to add Postal repository:
echo "deb https://packagecloud.io/Postal/Community/Debian/ `lsb_release -cs` main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/postal.list
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/keys/postal/gpgkey | sudo apt-key add -
After adding the Postal repository, we can install Postal using the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install postal
Once Postal is installed, we need to configure it by running the following command to setup the postal user:
sudo postal make-user
Next, we need to initialize the Postal database using the following command:
sudo postal initialize
Finally, we need to setup Nginx to work with Postal. To do so, we can run the following command:
sudo postal setup nginx
After configuring Postal and Nginx, we can start the Postal services using the following command:
sudo postal start
To verify that Postal is running successfully, we can access the Postal web interface by visiting the following URL in our web browser:
https://your-ip-address/admin/
Replace "your-ip-address" with your server IP address. Login to Postal with your postal user account and password created earlier.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Postal on your Debian Latest system!
If you want to self-host in an easy, hands free way, need an external IP address, or simply want your data in your own hands, give IPv6.rs a try!
Alternatively, for the best virtual desktop, try Shells!
