dpaste is an open-source application that allows users to share snippets of code and text with ease. This tutorial will guide you through the installation process of dpaste on FreeBSD Latest.
If you don't have Python 3 installed on your FreeBSD server, you'll need to do so before installing dpaste.
Open a terminal window and log in to your server using SSH.
Run the following command to install Python 3:
sudo pkg install python3
Once the installation is complete, verify that Python 3 is installed by running the following command:
python3 --version
If installed correctly, this should display the version of Python 3 that was installed on your server.
To install dpaste, start by installing the dependencies required for dpaste:
sudo pkg install py37-setuptools py37-wheel py37-pip
Once the dependencies are installed, use pip to install dpaste:
sudo pip install dpaste
This will download dpaste and all of its dependencies, then install it on your FreeBSD server.
You can now test dpaste by running the following command:
dpaste --web --bind 0.0.0.0:8000
This will start dpaste on port 8000 and make it accessible from any IP address. You can replace "8000" with any other port number you prefer.
To test dpaste, open a web browser and navigate to http://your_server_ip:8000. This should display the dpaste home page, where you can create and share snippets of code and text.
In this tutorial, we installed dpaste on FreeBSD Latest and tested it, successfully running it on a local server or VPS. You may want to configure Nginx, for example, to use dpaste in a production environment.
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