In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Asciinema server on a Debian system. Asciinema is a tool that lets you record and share terminal sessions.
For this tutorial, you need to have the following:
Open your terminal and run the following command to download and install Asciinema on Debian.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install asciinema
After the installation of Asciinema is completed, you can verify if it is installed correctly by running the following command.
asciinema --version
This command should output the current version of Asciinema installed on your server.
To use Asciinema, you need to record a terminal session. You can do this by running the following command.
asciinema rec
This command will start recording your terminal session. Once you are done with your work, you can hit the "Ctrl-D" key combination to stop the recording.
To upload your recording to the Asciinema server, run the following command.
asciinema upload filename.cast
Here, "filename.cast" is the name of the file you want to upload. Once you upload your recording, you will get a URL that you can share with others.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Asciinema on a Debian system. Asciinema is a useful tool to record and share your terminal sessions with others.
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