Espial is an open source web browser that is designed to be fast, lightweight and customizable. It supports modern web technologies and comes with a minimal user interface. In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps to install Espial on FreeBSD Latest using the source code available on Github.
Before we begin, make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your FreeBSD system:
To install Espial, we need to download and install its dependencies. Let's start by installing Git:
sudo pkg install git
Next, we need to install CMake:
sudo pkg install cmake
And Clang:
sudo pkg install clang
Finally, we need to install LLVM:
sudo pkg install llvm
Now that we have installed the dependencies, we can download the Espial source code using Git:
git clone https://github.com/jonschoning/espial.git
This will download the Espial source code to your current working directory.
To build and install Espial, we need to navigate to the directory where we downloaded the source code and run the following commands:
cd espial
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install
This will install Espial to your system.
To launch Espial, open a terminal window and type:
espial
This will launch the Espial browser. You can now use it to surf the web.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Espial on FreeBSD Latest. You can now enjoy a fast and lightweight web browsing experience on your FreeBSD system.
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