Etherpad is a web-based collaborative document editor that allows multiple people to work on the same document in real-time. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Etherpad on Elementary OS Latest.
The first step is to install Node.js, which is the runtime environment for JavaScript. To install Node.js, open the terminal and run the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Next, we need to install NPM, which is a package manager for Node.js. To install NPM, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install -y npm
To install Etherpad, we will use NPM. Open the terminal and run the following commands:
sudo npm install -g etherpad-lite
This will install Etherpad globally on your system.
To start Etherpad, run the following command in the terminal:
etherpad-lite
This will start Etherpad on your system. You can now access it by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:9001/.
By default, Etherpad uses SQLite as its database. However, you can also use other databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL. To configure Etherpad, edit the settings.json file located in the etherpad-lite directory.
sudo nano /usr/lib/etherpad-lite/settings.json
Here, you can change various settings such as the port number, the IP address, and the database type.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Etherpad on Elementary OS Latest. Etherpad is a powerful tool that can be used for real-time collaboration on text documents. With the help of this tutorial, you can easily install Etherpad on your system and start using it for your collaborations.
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