Installing Sourcehut on MXLinux Latest

Sourcehut is a powerful platform for software development, including version control, continuous integration, and much more. In this guide, we'll take you through the steps for installing and configuring Sourcehut on MXLinux Latest.

Prerequisites

Step 1: Install dependencies

Before we begin with the installation, we need to install some dependencies. Open the terminal and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install git python python-setuptools python-dev python-pip python-virtualenv python-wheel

This command will install basic packages that are necessary for Sourcehut to run.

Step 2: Clone Sourcehut

Once the dependencies are installed, we can clone the Sourcehut repository using the following command:

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sourcehut

This command will create a directory called sourcehut in your current working directory.

Step 3: Install Sourcehut

Now that we have cloned the repository, we can install Sourcehut using the following commands:

cd sourcehut
make build
sudo make install

It is important to run the make build command before installing Sourcehut. This command will build Sourcehut from the source code.

Step 4: Configure and start Sourcehut

Finally, we need to configure and start Sourcehut. To configure Sourcehut, we first need to create a configuration file:

sourcehut init

This command will create a configuration file in ~/.config/sourcehut/config.ini. You can now proceed to customize Sourcehut according to your needs by editing the configuration file.

After configuring Sourcehut, we can start the server using the following command:

sourcehut serve

This command will start the Sourcehut server on port 8000.

Conclusion

That’s it! By following these simple steps, you can install and configure Sourcehut on your MXLinux Latest instance. Sourcehut provides an excellent platform for software development, and we hope that this tutorial makes it easy for you to get started with it.

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