Socialhome is an open-source and decentralized social networking platform. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Socialhome on the latest version of Elementary OS.
First, we need to install some dependencies required to run Socialhome. Open your terminal and update your system's package list by running:
sudo apt update
Then, install the following dependencies:
sudo apt install -y python3 python3-dev python3-pip libssl-dev libffi-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-dev libxslt-dev
Socialhome uses PostgreSQL as its database management system. To install PostgreSQL, run:
sudo apt install -y postgresql postgresql-contrib
Once it's installed, create a new PostgreSQL user and database with the following commands:
sudo su - postgres
createuser -P socialhome
createdb -O socialhome socialhome
exit
Now, we are ready to install Socialhome. We will use pip to install Socialhome from the Python Package Index. First, install pip if it's not already installed:
sudo apt install -y python3-pip
Then, install Socialhome:
sudo pip3 install socialhome
After installing Socialhome, we need to configure it to use PostgreSQL as its database.
Create a new file named local_settings.py in the Socialhome directory:
sudo nano /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/socialhome/local_settings.py
Then, add the following lines to the file:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'socialhome',
'USER': 'socialhome',
'PASSWORD': 'YourPasswordHere!',
'HOST': 'localhost',
'PORT': '',
}
}
Save and close the file.
Finally, we can run Socialhome using the runserver command:
sudo socialhome runserver 0.0.0.0:80
The 0.0.0.0:80 part means that Socialhome will be accessible at http://localhost:80 on your machine.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Socialhome on Elementary OS Latest.
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