GoAccess is an open-source web analytics tool that allows you to analyze and monitor real-time website traffic. It is a command-line tool that provides a comprehensive report of your website traffic in various formats like HTML, JSON, and CSV.
In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install GoAccess on Linux Mint Latest.
Before we start, make sure you have the following:
GoAccess requires some libraries and dependencies to be installed on the system. To install them, open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y libncursesw5-dev libglib2.0-dev zlib1g-dev
Next, you need to download the GoAccess package from the official website. Open the terminal and run the following command:
wget https://tar.goaccess.io/goaccess-1.5.tar.gz
After downloading the package, extract it using the following command:
tar -xzvf goaccess-1.5.tar.gz
Navigate to the extracted directory and configure GoAccess using the following command:
cd goaccess-1.5/
./configure --enable-utf8 --enable-geoip=legacy --with-getline
Once the configuration is complete, compile it using the following command:
make
After compiling the package, install it using the following command:
sudo make install
To verify the installation, run the following command to check the version of GoAccess:
goaccess --version
You should see the output with the version of GoAccess installed.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed GoAccess on Linux Mint Latest. You can now use GoAccess to monitor and analyze real-time website traffic. You can also generate various reports in different formats and customize them as per your requirements.
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