Coral is a platform that allows newsrooms and journalists to have better conversations with their audiences. If you want to install Coral on your MXLinux Latest system, here’s how to do it.
Coral requires MongoDB, a NoSQL database, to store its data. To install MongoDB on your MXLinux Latest system, open a terminal and enter the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mongodb
Once the installation is complete, you can start MongoDB by running:
sudo systemctl start mongodb
You can also enable MongoDB to start automatically at boot time by running:
sudo systemctl enable mongodb
Coral is built with Node.js, a server-side JavaScript platform. To install Node.js on your MXLinux Latest system, open a terminal and enter the following commands:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt install -y nodejs
Once the installation is complete, you can check the version of Node.js by running:
node -v
To install Coral, open a terminal and enter the following commands:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/coralproject/talk.git
cd talk
npm install
This will download the Talk code from Github and install its dependencies.
Coral requires some configuration before it can be used. To configure Coral, create a file called .env in the talk directory and add the following configuration options:
MONGODB_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/talk
TALK_ROOT_URL=http://localhost:3000
These options specify the URL for MongoDB and the root URL for Coral.
To start Coral, open a terminal and enter the following command:
npm start
This will start the Coral server and make it available at http://localhost:3000.
Congratulations, you have installed and configured Coral on your MXLinux Latest system. You can now use Coral to have better conversations with your audiences.
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