In this tutorial, we will walk you through the installation process of Status, a privacy-focused messaging application, on MXLinux Latest.
Before we proceed with the installation process, we will first need to install some dependencies on our system.
Open the terminal and execute the following command:
sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev libpq-dev libudev-dev pkg-config zlib1g-dev curl git
This command will install the required dependencies to build and run Status on our system.
Next, we will clone the Status repository from its GitHub page. To do this, execute the following command in the terminal:
git clone https://github.com/dani3l0/Status.git
This will clone the Status repository to your system.
Status is built using NPM, a package manager for Node.js. Therefore, we will need to install NPM on our system.
To do this, execute the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install npm
This will install NPM on your system.
Next, we will install Node.js, a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
To install Node.js, execute the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install nodejs
Status also requires Geth, a command-line interface for running Ethereum nodes, to run on our system. To install Geth, execute the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install geth
Finally, we will install IPFS, a peer-to-peer network for sharing files.
To install IPFS, execute the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install ipfs
We are now ready to install Status on our MXLinux system.
Navigate to the Status directory that we cloned earlier, and execute the following command:
npm install
This command will install all the necessary packages and dependencies required by Status to run.
Finally, we can run Status on our system. To do this, execute the following command in the terminal:
npm run dev
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Status on your MXLinux Latest system.
In this tutorial, we walked you through the installation process of Status on MXLinux Latest. We installed all the required dependencies, cloned the Status repository, installed NPM, Node.js, Geth, and IPFS, and finally ran Status on our system. With Status, you can now have private messaging conversations with your friends and family.
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