Gallery CSS is a lightweight CSS photo gallery that allows you to create beautiful and responsive galleries on your website. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Gallery CSS on Elementary OS Latest.
Before we start, you need to make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
Follow these steps to install Gallery CSS on your Elementary OS Latest:
Open your terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T or from the Applications menu.
Navigate to the root directory of your web server using the cd command. For example:
cd /var/www/html/
Download the latest version of Gallery CSS using the wget command:
wget https://github.com/benschwarz/gallery-css/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.3.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded file using the tar command:
tar -xvf v1.0.3.tar.gz
Rename the extracted directory to a more readable name:
mv gallery-css-1.0.3/ gallery-css/
Change the owner of the gallery-css directory to the user that your web server is running as. For example:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data gallery-css/
That's it! Gallery CSS is now installed on your Elementary OS Latest machine.
To use Gallery CSS in your website, you need to include its CSS and JavaScript files in your HTML code. For example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Gallery</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/gallery-css/css/gallery.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="/gallery-css/js/gallery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- your gallery code here -->
</body>
</html>
You can customize your gallery by modifying the gallery.css file or by using the Gallery CSS documentation to create your own styles.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Gallery CSS on your Elementary OS Latest machine.
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