How to Install Lemmy on MXLinux Latest

Lemmy is a free, open-source, federated link aggregator alternative to Reddit or Hacker News. It has been gaining popularity among those who want to own their data and privacy, and control the communities they participate in. This tutorial will guide you through the installation steps of Lemmy on MXLinux Latest using the terminal.

Pre-requisites

Step 1: Install Rust

Lemmy is written in Rust programming language. To run Lemmy, you need to install Rust first. Rust has its own installation tool called rustup which makes installation very easy.

Open a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard and run the following commands:

$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

This command will install rustup and Rust compiler on your system.

Step 2: Install PostgreSQL

Lemmy requires PostgreSQL as its database. To install PostgreSQL, run the following command in your terminal:

$ sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib libpq-dev

You can verify the installation by running the following command:

$ psql --version

It should return the version of PostgreSQL installed on your system.

Step 3: Create a PostgreSQL User and Database

Next, we need to create a PostgreSQL user and a database for Lemmy. To do that, run the following commands one by one:

$ sudo su - postgres
$ createuser -s lemmy
$ createdb -O lemmy lemmy

The above commands will create a user called lemmy with superuser privileges and a database called lemmy owned by the lemmy user.

Step 4: Clone Lemmy Repository

Now we will clone the Lemmy repository to our system. For this, you need to have Git installed on your system. To install Git, run the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install git

After installing Git, navigate to the directory where you want to install Lemmy and run the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git

This will clone the Lemmy repository to your system.

Step 5: Build and Run Lemmy

After cloning the repository, navigate to the lemmy directory:

$ cd lemmy

Now build and run the server using the following command:

$ cargo run --release

This may take some time as all the dependencies will be downloaded and built. Once it is ready, you should see the following output:

    Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 0.63s
     Running `target/release/lemmy-server`

This indicates that Lemmy is running on your system.

Step 6: Accessing Lemmy

Open your web browser and enter http://localhost:8536 in the address bar. You should see the Lemmy landing page. You can now create an account and start using Lemmy.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Lemmy, a federated link aggregator, on MXLinux Latest. By following these steps, you will be able to run Lemmy on your system and start browsing communities.

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