Minio is a self-hosted, distributed object storage server. It is compatible with Amazon S3 cloud storage service and it provides an easy and efficient way to store and manage objects such as images, videos or any other multimedia content. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Minio on EndeavourOS.
Before we begin, make sure your EndeavourOS system is up-to-date with the latest packages and that you have sudo privileges. If you need to update, run:
sudo pacman -Syu
The first thing we need to do is install the dependencies required by Minio. Run the following command to install the dependencies:
sudo pacman -S curl lsof gzip tar
The next step is to download the latest release of Minio from their website https://min.io/download using the following command:
wget https://dl.min.io/server/minio/release/linux-amd64/minio
After the download is finished, make the file executable by running:
chmod +x minio
Next, extract the archive using the following command:
tar -xvf minio
To start Minio automatically at system startup, we need to create a systemd service for it. Create a new file /etc/systemd/system/minio.service using your favorite text editor:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/minio.service
Add the following content:
[Unit]
Description=Minio
[Service]
Type=simple
User=YOUR_USERNAME_HERE
WorkingDirectory=/opt/minio
Restart=always
ExecStart=/opt/minio/minio server /opt/data
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
Note: Replace YOUR_USERNAME_HERE with your own username.
Save and close the file.
By default, Minio listens on port 9000 for HTTPS connections. You can change this by setting the MINIO_VOLUMES environment variable to point to the directory where you want to store the data, and MINIO_OPTS environment variable to specify additional options.
In this example, we will use the default settings.
Create the Minio configuration file by running the following command:
sudo mkdir /opt/minio
echo "export MINIO_VOLUMES=/opt/data" | sudo tee -a /etc/environment
source /etc/environment
Now that Minio is setup, we can start the service with:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable minio.service
sudo systemctl start minio.service
To check the status and see if the service started successfully, run:
sudo systemctl status minio.service
You can also run the following command to list the services listening to the port 9000:
sudo lsof -i :9000
You can access the Minio web UI dashboard by opening your web browser and navigating to https://YOUR_SERVER_IP:9000. Replace YOUR_SERVER_IP with the IP address of your EndeavourOS system.
You will be prompted for your login credentials. By default, the access key is minio and the secret key is minio123.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install and configure Minio on EndeavourOS. Now you have a self-hosted, distributed object storage server to store and manage your multimedia content.
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