GoToSocial is an open-source social networking platform built on the Go programming language. In this tutorial, we will install GoToSocial on the latest version of Fedora Server.
Before starting, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
GoToSocial is built on Go, so we need to install it on our system before we can proceed. To install Go run the following command:
sudo dnf install golang
Next, we need to install Git to clone the project from the GitHub repository. Run the following command to install Git on the server:
sudo dnf install git-all
After installing Go and Git, we need to clone the GoToSocial repository from GitHub. We will use the Git command to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
This will clone the repository into the current directory. You can verify the cloned repository by listing the files:
ls gotosocial
With the repository cloned, we can now build GoToSocial using the make command. Change the directory to the cloned repository and run the following command:
cd gotosocial
make
This make command will download all the required dependencies and build the application.
After the build process is complete, we can start the GoToSocial service by running the following command:
./gotosocial start
Once the service is started, you can access GoToSocial in your web browser by visiting http://localhost:8080/.
That's it! We have successfully installed GoToSocial on Fedora Server latest. You can explore the application and customize as per your needs.
Happy Coding :)
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