Vaults is a secure personal data manager that allows you to store and manage your sensitive data such as passwords, credit cards, notes, and other personal data on your local machine or cloud storage.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Vaults on Linux Mint by cloning the GitHub repository.
Before proceeding with the installation, you must have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to install Git, a version control system used to clone the Vaults repository.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
After installing Git, you can clone the Vaults repository using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/MatrixEternal/vaults.git
This command will create a new directory vaults in your current directory, and the entire source code will be downloaded inside this folder.
Before installing Vaults, you need to install its dependencies. Open the terminal and navigate inside the vaults directory.
cd vaults
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-dev python3-pip python3-venv libcairo2-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev libgirepository1.0-dev
After that, create a Python virtual environment and activate it.
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
Now, install the required packages from requirements.txt.
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Finally, build the Vaults executable by running the following command:
python3 setup.py install
Now that you have installed Vaults successfully, you can run it by executing the following command:
vaults
Vaults will run in the default browser, and you can start using it to store and manage your personal data.
In conclusion, by following the above steps, you can install Vaults on Linux Mint quickly and easily. Vaults is an essential tool for managing your personal data securely, and we highly recommend using it.
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