LinkAce is a self-hosted bookmark manager that allows you to organize your bookmarks, tags, and notes in one place. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install LinkAce on MXLinux Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation process, you need to ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
To download LinkAce, you need to visit the official website at https://www.linkace.org/ and click on the Download link. Alternatively, you can use the following command to download LinkAce in the terminal:
$ git clone https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce.git
Before installing LinkAce, you need to install the dependencies by navigating to the root directory of the cloned repository and running the following command:
$ composer install --no-dev
This command will download and install all the necessary packages required by LinkAce.
Next, you need to create a new MySQL/MariaDB database for LinkAce. To do this, log in to the database server using the following command:
$ sudo mysql -u root -p
Replace root with the username of your MySQL/MariaDB user if you are using a different user to connect to the database server.
Enter your password when prompted and press Enter.
Once you have successfully logged in, create a new database by running the following commands:
CREATE DATABASE linkace;
Replace linkace with the name of your desired database.
Next, create a new database user by running the following command:
CREATE USER 'linkaceuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
Replace linkaceuser with the desired username and password with the desired password for the database user.
Finally, grant the necessary privileges to the database user by running the following command:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON linkace.* TO 'linkaceuser'@'localhost';
This command grants all privileges to the user for the linkace database.
Once you have completed the above steps, exit the MySQL/MariaDB shell using the following command:
EXIT;
To configure LinkAce, you need to first copy the .env.example file to .env by running the following command:
$ cp .env.example .env
Next, open the .env file with your text editor and set the database credentials to the ones you created earlier:
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=linkace
DB_USERNAME=linkaceuser
DB_PASSWORD=password
Save and close the file once you have made the necessary changes.
Before starting the server, you need to migrate and seed the database by running the following command in the terminal:
$ php artisan migrate --seed
This command will create the necessary tables and populate them with the initial data required by LinkAce.
Once you have completed the above steps, you can start the server by running the following command in the terminal:
$ php artisan serve
This command will start the development server at http://localhost:8000.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed LinkAce on MXLinux Latest. You can now access the bookmark manager by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8000.
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