How to Install Our Shopping List on Elementary OS

Our Shopping List is a simple to-do list app that can help you keep track of your grocery shopping list easily. It is available as a free and open-source application on GitHub. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install it on your Elementary OS computer.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, please make sure that you have the following items:

Installing Our Shopping List

  1. Open your Terminal app by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for it in the Applications menu.

  2. In the terminal, type the following command to install the necessary dependencies:

    sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-venv libpq-dev python3-dev
    

    This command will install Python3 and some other necessary packages for Our Shopping List to run.

  3. Next, navigate to the directory where you want to install Our Shopping List. You can use the cd command to move to the desired directory.

  4. Clone the Our Shopping List repository from GitHub by executing the following command:

    git clone https://github.com/nanawel/our-shopping-list.git
    

    This will download the latest version of Our Shopping List to your system.

  5. In the terminal, navigate to the root folder of Our Shopping List:

    cd our-shopping-list
    
  6. Install the required Python packages by running the following command:

    pip3 install -r requirements.txt
    
  7. Set up the database by running the following commands:

    python3 manage.py migrate
    python3 manage.py createsuperuser
    
  8. Start the server by running the following command:

    python3 manage.py runserver
    
  9. Open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000 to access Our Shopping List.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Our Shopping List on your Elementary OS computer.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you have learned how to install Our Shopping List on your Elementary OS computer. This simple to-do list app can help you manage your grocery shopping list like a pro.

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