Rallly is an open-source platform for scheduling meetings and making decisions with your team or group of friends. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Rallly on the latest version of Elementary OS.
Before we begin, it is important to ensure that your system is up to date. You can do this by opening the terminal and running the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
This will update all the packages on your system to the latest versions.
Rallly is built using Node.js, which means you need to have it installed on your system. We also need to install npm, which is a package manager for Node.js.
In the terminal, run the following command:
sudo apt install nodejs npm
This will install both Node.js and npm on your system.
Rallly also requires MongoDB, which is a NoSQL database. You can install it by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install mongodb
Once the installation is complete, start the MongoDB service by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start mongodb
You can also enable MongoDB to start on boot with the following command:
sudo systemctl enable mongodb
Now that we have all the prerequisites installed, we can download and install Rallly.
In the terminal, navigate to the directory where you want to install Rallly. For example, if you want to install it in your home directory, you can run:
cd ~
Next, download the latest version of Rallly from the official website:
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/Rallly/app/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*app.zip" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \
| wget -qi -
Extract the downloaded file by running the following command:
unzip Rallly-app.zip
This will create a directory named Rallly-app in your current directory.
Finally, we can start the Rallly server:
cd Rallly-app
npm install
npm start
This will start the Rallly server and you should see output in the terminal showing that it is up and running.
You can now access Rallly by opening your web browser and going to http://localhost:3000.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Rallly on your Elementary OS system.
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