How to Install HttPlaceholder on Elementary OS

HttPlaceholder is an open-source stub server and dynamic mock API generator. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to install HttPlaceholder on Elementary OS.

Prerequisites

Before we begin with the installation process, ensure that you have the following requirements:

• Elementary OS Latest version

Steps to Install HttPlaceholder

Follow the steps given below to install HttPlaceholder:

1. First, open the terminal on your Elementary OS by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T.
2. Install mono-devel and nuget using the terminal command sudo apt-get install mono-devel nuget.
3. Clone the HttPlaceholder GitHub repository using the command:

git clone https://github.com/dukeofharen/httplaceholder.git

4. Once the repository is cloned, navigate to the HttPlaceholder directory by running the following command:

cd httplaceholder

5. Restore the packages by running the following command:

nuget restore httplaceholder.sln

6. Build the solution using the following command:

xbuild /p:Platform="Any CPU" /p:Configuration="Release" httplaceholder.sln

7. You can now start the server by running the following command:

mono httplaceholder/bin/Release/httplaceholder.exe

8. Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:5000/swagger/index.html to verify that the installation process was successful.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed HttPlaceholder on your Elementary OS system.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we've learned the steps to install HttPlaceholder on Elementary OS Latest version. We hope that this guide has been helpful to you!

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