How to Install Mealie on MXLinux Latest

Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner. In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps of installing Mealie on MXLinux Latest.

Prerequisites

• MXLinux Latest installed on your computer
• A terminal application

Steps

1. Open a terminal on MXLinux by pressing CTRL+ALT+T or searching for "terminal" in the application menu.

2. Install Python 3 and pip by running the following command:

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip

3. Clone the Mealie repository from GitHub using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/hay-kot/mealie.git

4. Navigate to the Mealie directory using the following command:

cd mealie/

5. Install the required Python packages using the requirements.txt file:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

6. Rename config.example.yml to config.yml:

mv config.example.yml config.yml

7. Edit the config.yml file by entering your MySQL or SQLite database information. To set up a SQLite database, use the following settings:

DATABASE_URL: "sqlite:///mealie.sqlite3"
DATABASE_DRIVER: "sqlite"

8. Create the Mealie database and run migrations:

python3 manage.py makemigrations
python3 manage.py migrate

9. Create a superuser account:

python3 manage.py createsuperuser

10. Start the Mealie server:

python3 manage.py runserver

11. Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000 to begin using Mealie.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Mealie on MXLinux Latest. You can now start adding recipes and planning meals using the application.

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