Rapidbay is a self-hosted web application that allows users to search and download torrent files. In this guide, we will show you how to install Rapidbay on Linux Mint using the command-line interface (CLI).
Before installing Rapidbay, you need to install Docker. Docker is a containerization platform that enables developers to easily create, deploy and run applications in containers.
You can install Docker using the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
Once the installation is complete, you can check if Docker is running properly with this command:
sudo systemctl status docker
If Docker is running, you should see an output similar to this:
Rapidbay is hosted on GitHub, and in order to download the files, you will need to install Git. You can install Git using the following command:
sudo apt-get install git
Next, you need to clone the Rapidbay repository to your local machine. To do this, execute the following command:
git clone https://github.com/hauxir/rapidbay.git
This will download the files in the repository to your current working directory.
Before running Rapidbay, you need to build the Docker image using the Dockerfile provided in the repository. Navigate into the project directory that you cloned, and execute the following command:
cd rapidbay
sudo docker build -t rapidbay .
This will take a few minutes to complete, but once it is done, you should have a Docker image named rapidbay on your machine.
Now it's time to run Rapidbay. To do this, execute the following command in your terminal from the Rapidbay directory:
sudo docker run -p 80:80 -d --name rapidbay rapidbay
This will start a new Docker container named rapidbay, and publish the application on port 80. You can now access Rapidbay by going to http://localhost in your browser.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Rapidbay on Linux Mint Latest!
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