How to Install DOCAT on FreeBSD Latest

DOCAT is an open-source software for connecting STDIO on local service to TCP socket or SSL socket on remote service. Here's a step-by-step tutorial on how to install DOCAT on FreeBSD Latest using the source code from https://github.com/docat-org/docat.

Prerequisites

1. FreeBSD Latest OS
2. Access to the terminal with sudo privileges
3. Git installed on your system

Installation

1. Log in to your FreeBSD server as a user with sudo privileges.

2. Update your system by running the following command:

sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade

3. Install the dependencies required to build DOCAT:

sudo pkg install gcc git cmake openssl

4. Clone the latest source code of DOCAT from GitHub by running the following command:

git clone https://github.com/docat-org/docat.git

5. Change to the DOCAT directory by running the following command:

cd docat

6. Compile the source code using CMake by running the following command:

cmake .

7. Build DOCAT using Make by running the following command:

make

8. Install DOCAT system-wide by running the following command using sudo:

sudo make install

Once you've completed these steps, DOCAT should be installed and ready for use on your FreeBSD Latest system.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install DOCAT on FreeBSD Latest. We hope this guide has been helpful to you and that you can now make use of DOCAT's capabilities for your projects.

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