Weaviate is a powerful open-source platform designed to provide an intuitive and scalable way to perform natural language processing (NLP) and build smart applications. If you want to take advantage of Weaviate features, you can quickly install it on your Elementary OS latest distribution by following these few steps.
Before you start the installation, you need to have the following requirements on your machine:
It's recommended always to start by updating the system packages to their latest version. To do this, open a terminal console and run the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
This command will search for new package versions and install them if available.
Docker is required to run Weaviate as a containerized application. To install it, run the following command:
sudo apt install docker.io -y
This command will install the Docker package and its dependencies on your computer. You can verify that Docker is installed correctly by running the following command:
docker --version
You should see the Docker version information printed on the screen.
Once Docker is installed, you can download the Weaviate image from the official Docker repository. To do this, run the following command:
sudo docker pull semitechnologies/weaviate
This command will download the latest version of the Weaviate image and store it on your local machine.
Now that you have the Weaviate image on your system, you can start a new container by running the following command:
sudo docker run -itd --name weaviate -p 8080:8080 semitechnologies/weaviate
This command will create and start a new Docker container from the Weaviate image, named "weaviate," and map port 8080 of your host machine to port 8080 of the container. Note that the -itd option stands for 'interactive tty daemon,' meaning you can run multiple commands on the container console.
Once Weaviate is up and running, you can access its user interface by typing its IP address followed by port 8080 in your favorite web browser. The IP address is the IP address of your computer, which you can get by running the following command:
ip addr show
Look for the IP address assigned to your device's default interface or network card, and enter it in the web browser followed by port 8080 (e.g., http://192.168.1.10:8080). This will open the Weaviate web interface, where you can start creating and managing your data objects.
Congratulations! You now have Weaviate up and running and can start exploring its features, such as natural language processing, recommendation engines, and more. We hope this tutorial has been helpful in guiding you through the installation process on Elementary OS Latest. Don't forget to stop the container when you finish testing or after each Weaviate session by typing docker stop weaviate in the terminal console.
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