In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Discourse, a free and open-source discussion platform, on Linux Mint Latest.
Before installing Discourse, make sure your system is up to date. Open the Terminal and run the following command.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
The command will update and upgrade the packages installed on your system.
Discourse requires several dependencies to be installed before installation. Run the following command to install the required dependencies.
sudo apt-get install curl git libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev autoconf bison build-essential libyaml-dev libreadline-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libtool libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libpq-dev imagemagick postgresql postgresql-contrib
This command installs the necessary libraries and tools that are required by Discourse.
Discourse runs on Docker, so you need to install Docker on your system. Run the following commands to install and verify Docker.
curl -fsSL get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sudo sh get-docker.sh
docker --version
The above commands will download and install Docker on your system and show the version of Docker installed.
Once you have installed Docker, you can proceed to clone the Discourse repository and set it up.
Run the following commands to clone the Discourse repository and access it.
git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse.git /var/discourse
cd /var/discourse
Now run the setup script to set up Discourse.
sudo ./discourse-setup
The script will ask you various questions. You can press Enter to accept the default values or input the appropriate values as per your requirements.
After the script finishes running, it will display the URL to access the Discourse forum.
Now that you have installed and set up Discourse, you can access it by going to the URL displayed at the end of the setup script.
Open your web browser and enter the URL in the address bar. You should see the Discourse landing page.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Discourse on Linux Mint Latest. You also learned to install the required dependencies, Docker, clone the Discourse repository, and set it up. Now you have a functional Discourse forum running on your Linux Mint Latest system.
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