Dillinger is a free online Markdown editor that can be used to write, edit, and preview Markdown documents. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Dillinger on your Elementary OS system.
Before installing Dillinger, ensure that you have the following:
It's always best practice to update your system before installing any software. To do this, open the terminal and enter the following command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Dillinger is a repository for GitHub, which means that we need to have Git installed on our system. To install Git, enter the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install git
Dillinger is built on Node.js, so we need to have that installed too. To install Node.js, enter the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install nodejs
npm is Node.js package manager, which we need to use to install Dillinger. To install npm, enter the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install npm
Now that we have all the prerequisites installed, we can proceed to clone Dillinger from GitHub. To do this, enter the following command in the terminal:
git clone https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger.git
Once the cloning process is complete, navigate to the dillinger directory.
cd dillinger
Now that we're in the dillinger directory, we need to install the required npm packages. To do this, enter the following command:
npm install
We're now ready to start Dillinger. To do this, enter the following command:
npm start
This will launch Dillinger in your default browser.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Dillinger on Elementary OS. Now that you have Dillinger up and running, you can use it to write your Markdown documents. Happy writing!
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