How to Install Socialhome on MXLinux Latest

Socialhome is an open-source social networking platform that you can install on your server or personal computer to create your own social network. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Socialhome on MXLinux.

Prerequisites

Before starting with the installation process, we need to ensure that our system has the following prerequisites:

• MXLinux installed on your computer.
• Internet connection
• Root or Sudo access

Step 1: Update the system

The first step is to ensure that our system is up to date. Open the terminal and run the following command:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Step 2: Install the required dependencies

To install Socialhome, we need to install some dependencies first. Open the terminal and run the following command:

sudo apt install python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-dev \
python3-psycopg2 python3-lxml python3-magic python3-html5lib \
python3-pillow python3-social-auth python3-daphne rabbitmq-server \
erlang libpq-dev libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev \
build-essential libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev git

Step 3: Install Socialhome

Once the dependencies are installed, we can now proceed with the installation of Socialhome. Open the terminal and run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/jaywink/socialhome.git socialhome
cd socialhome
pip3 install --user --upgrade pip
pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt
python3 manage.py migrate
python3 manage.py loaddev

Step 4: Configure Socialhome

To configure Socialhome, we need to create a configuration file. Open the terminal and run the following command:

nano /home/<user>/socialhome/settings/local.py

Replace <user> with your username. Paste the following code in the file:

from .base import *  # noqa: F401, F403

DEBUG = True

# Database
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
        'NAME': 'socialhome',
        'USER': 'postgres',
        'PASSWORD': '<password>',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '5432',
    }
}

# Email
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_HOST = '<email_host>'
EMAIL_PORT = '587'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '<email_username>'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = '<email_password>'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_TIMEOUT = 5

# Social Auth
SOCIAL_AUTH_GITHUB_KEY = '<github_key>'
SOCIAL_AUTH_GITHUB_SECRET = '<github_secret>'

# Django Daphne
CHANNEL_LAYERS = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'channels.layers.InMemoryChannelLayer',
    }
}

Replace the placeholders with your own values:

• <password>: Password for the Postgres username provided during installation.
• <email_host>: SMTP email host (e.g. smtp.gmail.com).
• <email_username>: SMTP email username.
• <email_password>: SMTP email password.
• <github_key>: GitHub application key (you can create one from your GitHub account).
• <github_secret>: GitHub application secret (you can create one from your GitHub account).

Step 5: Run Socialhome

To run Socialhome, open the terminal and run the following command:

python3 manage.py runsslserver 0.0.0.0:8000

You can now open your web browser and go to https://localhost:8000 to access Socialhome.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Socialhome on MXLinux. You are now ready to use your own social networking platform.

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