Inlets is an open-source tool to expose local endpoints to the internet. In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of installing Inlets on the latest version of Elementary OS.
Before beginning with the installation process, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
To install Inlets on Elementary OS, you'll first need to download the Inlets binary.
You can download the Inlets binary using the following command in the terminal:
wget https://github.com/inlets/inlets/releases/download/2.7.0/inlets-pro-linux-amd64.tgz
After the binary gets downloaded, you need to extract it.
Use the following command to extract the Inlets binary:
tar -xvzf inlets-pro-linux-amd64.tgz
Once the Inlets binary is extracted, add it to the system path.
You can do this by moving the binary to /usr/local/bin using the following command:
sudo mv inlets-pro /usr/local/bin/inlets
After adding the Inlets binary to the path, verify the installation using the following command:
inlets version
If Inlets is installed correctly, you should see the version information.
Now that Inlets is installed, you can start it using the following command:
inlets server --auto-tls true
Congratulations! You have installed Inlets on your Elementary OS system. You can now start using Inlets to expose local endpoints to the internet.
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