How to Install Photoview on FreeBSD Latest

Photoview is a web-based image gallery and management tool that allows you to upload, organize and share your photos. In this tutorial, we will be installing Photoview on FreeBSD Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we start, ensure that your FreeBSD system is up-to-date and that you have access to the root account or a user account with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Install Dependencies

Photoview requires Node.js and SQLite to run. To install the necessary dependencies, open the terminal on your FreeBSD system and run the following command:

sudo pkg install node14 npm sqlite3

This command will install Node.js version 14, npm (Node Package Manager), and SQLite.

Step 2: Download Photoview

Next, we need to download the Photoview source code from the project's GitHub repository. To do this, use the following command to clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/photoview/photoview.git

This command will download the latest version of Photoview to a directory named "photoview" in your current working directory.

Step 3: Install Photoview

After downloading the source code, change to the "photoview" directory and install the NPM packages required by Photoview:

cd photoview
npm install

This command will install all required dependencies from the package.json file.

Step 4: Configure Photoview

Before starting Photoview, we need to configure it to use SQLite as the database. To do this, we will copy the default config file and modify it:

cp config/default.yaml config/local.yaml
vi config/local.yaml

Change the database section to use SQLite and set the path to your desired location:

database:
  client: sqlite3
  connection:
    filename: './db/photoview.sqlite'

Step 5: Initialize the Database

After configuring Photoview, we need to initialize the SQLite database by running the following command:

npm run db:init

This command will create and migrate the database schema.

Step 6: Start Photoview

Finally, we can start Photoview by running the following command:

npm start

This command will start the Photoview server on port 2342. You can access Photoview by navigating to http://localhost:2342 in your web browser.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Photoview on FreeBSD Latest. You can now upload, organize and share your photos using Photoview.

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