How to Install Glowing Bear on MXLinux Latest

Introduction

Glowing Bear is a web-based IRC client that provides a modern and customizable interface. It is built on top of popular IRC client libraries and runs in any modern web browser. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Glowing Bear on MXLinux Latest from the official GitHub repository.

Prerequisites

Before starting the installation process, you need to make sure that you have the following:

• A MXLinux Latest machine with a user account with sudo privileges
• A web browser to access the Glowing Bear interface once installed
• An internet connection to download the necessary files

Installing Glowing Bear

To install Glowing Bear on MXLinux Latest, follow these steps:

1. Open the terminal on your MXLinux Latest machine by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T.
2. Install Git using the following command:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install git

3. Clone the Glowing Bear repository using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear.git

4. Change the directory to the cloned repository:

cd glowing-bear

5. Initialize and update the submodules:

git submodule init && git submodule update

6. Install the dependencies by running the following command:

sudo apt-get install npm
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
sudo npm install

7. Build Glowing Bear by running the following command:

sudo grunt build

8. Start Glowing Bear by running the following command:

sudo grunt serve

9. Open your web browser and navigate to the following address:

http://localhost:9000

10. That’s it! You should now be able to see the Glowing Bear interface in your web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Glowing Bear on MXLinux Latest from the official GitHub repository. Glowing Bear is a web-based IRC client that provides a modern and customizable interface for IRC users. Now that you have installed it, you can use it to connect to your desired IRC server and start chatting with others.

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