How to Install Rustypaste on FreeBSD Latest

Rustypaste is a simple, fast, and secure pastebin service for sharing code and text online. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps required to install Rustypaste on FreeBSD Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we begin with the installation, make sure that the following prerequisites are met:

• A user account with sudo privileges.
• Latest version of FreeBSD installed on your system.
• Basic knowledge of the command line.

Step 1: Installing Dependencies

Before we can proceed with the installation, we need to install some dependencies on our system. Run the following command as a sudo user to install the necessary packages:

sudo pkg install -y openssl libssl-dev

Step 2: Downloading Rustypaste

Next, we need to download the Rustypaste source code from Github. Open a terminal and navigate to the desired directory where you want to download Rustypaste. Then, run the following command to clone the Rustypaste repository:

git clone https://github.com/orhun/rustypaste.git

Step 3: Building and Installing Rustypaste

Once the Rustypaste source code is downloaded, navigate to the rustypaste directory using the following command:

cd rustypaste

Now, we can build and install Rustypaste by running the following command:

cargo run --release

This cmd command will build and install Rustypaste on your system. The process will take some time to complete.

Step 4: Configuring and Running Rustypaste

After installation, Rustypaste configuration file is named config.toml. We need to make some changes to this file to get Rustypaste up and running.

Open config.toml in a text editor:

vi config.toml

Locate the following lines and modify them accordingly:

[daemon]
# ...
listen_addr = "0.0.0.0:8000"

Save and exit the file.

Finally, to start Rustypaste, run the following command:

./target/release/rustypaste

Now, you can navigate to the following url in your web browser to access Rustypaste:

http://your_server_ip:8000

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we walked you through the steps required to install Rustypaste on FreeBSD. We hope you found this tutorial helpful. With Rustypaste, you can easily share code and text online, in a simple, fast, and secure way!

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