Paperless-ngx is an open-source document management system that helps you to scan, archive, organize, and search all your important documents digitally. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Paperless-ngx on EndeavourOS Latest.
Before starting with the installation, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to install the required dependencies for Paperless-ngx. Run the following command on your terminal to install the dependencies:
sudo pacman -S python-pip python-pillow poppler tesseract
In this step, we will install the latest version of Paperless-ngx using pip. Run the following command on your terminal to install Paperless-ngx:
sudo pip install paperless
Next, we need to configure the database and storage settings for Paperless-ngx. Open the config.yml file located at /etc/paperless-ng/config.yml using your favorite text editor:
sudo nano /etc/paperless-ng/config.yml
Update the following settings based on your requirements:
database_uri: "postgresql://username:password@hostname:port/database"
storage_uri: "/path/to/storage/folder"
Save and exit the file.
In this step, we will create a new database and tables for Paperless-ngx. Run the following command on your terminal to create the database:
sudo -u postgres createdb paperless
Next, we will create the tables using the following command:
paperless-manage migrate
Finally, we are ready to run Paperless-ngx. Run the following command on your terminal to start the application:
paperless -c /etc/paperless-ng/config.yml runserver
That’s it! Paperless-ngx is now installed and running on your EndeavourOS Latest. You can now access the web interface by navigating to http://localhost:8000 on your web browser.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install and configure Paperless-ngx on EndeavourOS Latest. You can now scan, archive, organize, and search all your important documents digitally using Paperless-ngx.
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