Scoold is a popular platform to create a Q&A site or a community-driven knowledge base. It's an open-source, StackOverflow-like platform built on top of Google Drive that can be easily installed on your server or cloud environment.
In this tutorial, we will guide you, step by step, on how to install Scoold on MXLinux Latest.
Scoold is built on top of Java 8, so make sure that it's installed on your system by running the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
First, visit the official website of Scoold and download the latest version of Scoold in tar.gz format.
Once downloaded, open the terminal and navigate to the directory where the downloaded file is saved.
Extract the downloaded file using the following command:
tar -zxvf scoold-<version>.tar.gz
Once the file is extracted successfully, navigate to the extracted directory:
cd scoold-<version>
Start the Scoold server by running the following command:
sudo java -jar scoold.jar
If the server starts successfully, open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/.
You will see the Scoold welcome screen.
Once Scoold is installed, you may want to configure the system as per your needs. To do this, you can simply edit the application.conf file located at the root of the Scoold directory.
Moreover, you can use your Google Drive as a storage environment for your data. For this, you need to create a Google Drive API key and update the application.conf file accordingly.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Scoold on MXLinux Latest. Now that you have the platform up and running, you can start creating a Q&A site or a knowledge base to share knowledge with your community.
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