Hospital Run is an open-source software that manages the healthcare services of a hospital or clinic. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Hospital Run on MXLinux, one of the popular Linux distributions.
Before you start installing Hospital Run, you must have the following:
Before installing Hospital Run, we need to make sure that all the required dependencies are installed. Open the terminal and execute the following command to update the package list:
sudo apt update
After the update, run the following command to install the dependencies:
sudo apt install nodejs npm mongodb
Now that we have installed the dependencies, let's move on to the next step. Open your web browser and go to https://github.com/HospitalRun/hospitalrun-frontend/releases. Click on the latest release, and download the hospitalrun-frontend-[version].zip file.
Note: Replace [version] with the latest release version number.
After downloading the file, extract it to a directory of your choice. For example, you can extract the file to /home/your_username/hospitalrun.
Once you have extracted the Hospital Run files, open the terminal and navigate to the directory where you extracted the files. Run the following command to install the dependencies required by Hospital Run:
npm install
After the installation completes, run the following command to start Hospital Run:
npm start
This command will start Hospital Run on your machine. You can now access it by going to your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:3000.
Hospital Run uses MongoDB as its database backend. To connect Hospital Run to MongoDB, you need to start the MongoDB service. Run the following command to start the service:
sudo systemctl start mongodb
After the service starts, Hospital Run should be automatically connected to MongoDB.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Hospital Run on MXLinux Latest. We hope this tutorial helped you install and configure Hospital Run for your healthcare needs.
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