This tutorial will guide you through the steps to install Motor Admin on Elementary OS Latest. Motor Admin is a web-based database administration tool that allows you to manage multiple databases through a single interface. Let's get started!
The first step is to download Motor Admin from their website at https://www.getmotoradmin.com/. Once the download is complete, you will have a file named motor-admin-X.X.X.tar.gz, where X.X.X is the version number.
Open the terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T. Navigate to the directory where you saved the downloaded file by using the cd command. For example, if you saved the file to your Downloads folder, you would enter:
cd ~/Downloads
Once you're in the correct directory, use the following command to extract the files:
tar -xzvf motor-admin-X.X.X.tar.gz
Before we can run Motor Admin, we need to install some dependencies. Enter the following command to install the required packages:
sudo apt-get install git libssl-dev libffi-dev libmysqlclient-dev -y
Motor Admin requires Python 3.6 or higher to be installed on your system. Check if you have Python installed using:
python3 --version
If you do not have Python installed, use the following command to install it:
sudo apt-get install python3 -y
It is recommended to create a virtual environment to install Motor Admin. This will keep the dependencies required by Motor Admin separate from the system Python installation. Use the following command to create a virtual environment:
python3 -m venv motor-admin-env
This will create a motor-admin-env directory in your current directory.
To activate the virtual environment, enter the following command:
source motor-admin-env/bin/activate
You will see (motor-admin-env) appear before your username in the terminal.
Now that we have everything set up, we can install Motor Admin. Use the following commands to install it:
cd motor-admin-X.X.X/
pip install wheel
pip install -r requirements.txt
Use the following command to start Motor Admin:
python manage.py runserver
This will start the Motor Admin server, and you can access it by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8000.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Motor Admin on Elementary OS Latest. Now you can manage multiple databases through a single interface. Happy coding!
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