How to install Wayback on Linux Mint Latest

Wayback is an open-source tool used to explore the historical web pages. It enables you to browse through millions of website snapshots taken by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Here's how you can install Wayback on Linux Mint Latest:

Prerequisites

Before installing Wayback, you need to make sure that your system has the following requirements:

To install them, open your terminal and run the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre
sudo apt-get install maven

Installation

Once you have installed Git, OpenJDK-8-JRE, and Maven, you can now proceed with installing Wayback. Here's how:

  1. Open your terminal and create a directory where you want to clone the Wayback repository. For example:

    mkdir ~/wayback
    cd ~/wayback
    
  2. Clone the Wayback repository using the following command:

    git clone https://github.com/wabarc/wayback.git
    
  3. Navigate to the cloned directory:

    cd wayback/wayback-webapp/
    
  4. Run the Maven build and package command:

    mvn clean install -DskipTests=true
    
  5. The above command will take some time as it downloads dependencies, runs tests, and builds Wayback. Once the process is complete, you can start the Wayback server by running:

    cd ${WAYBACK_HOME}/wayback-webapp/target
    java -jar wayback-webapp-2.3.war
    
  6. Wait for a few seconds until the server starts, and then open your browser and go to http://localhost:8080/wayback/.

Voila! You have successfully installed Wayback on your Linux Mint Latest machine.

Conclusion

Wayback is a powerful tool that enables you to explore the historical web pages, and it's incredibly easy to install on Linux Mint Latest. By following the steps mentioned above, you can quickly get Wayback up and running on your machine.

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