How to Install Gossa on Manjaro

Gossa is a lightweight and fast Go web server for sharing files and directories. In this tutorial, we'll go through the step-by-step process of installing Gossa on your Manjaro Linux system.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:

• A working installation of Manjaro
• A terminal window

Step 1: Install Go

The first step is to install the Go programming language. To do this, open a terminal window and enter the following commands:

sudo pacman -S go

This command will use the pacman package manager to install Go on your system.

Step 2: Install Git

Next, you need to install Git. Git is a version control system that makes it easy to download and install software from GitHub. To install Git, open a terminal window and enter the following commands:

sudo pacman -S git

Step 3: Download Gossa

Now that you have Git installed, you can download Gossa from its GitHub repository. To do this, open a terminal window and enter the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/pldubouilh/gossa.git

This command will download the Gossa source code and place it in a directory called gossa in your current working directory.

Step 4: Build Gossa

With the Gossa source code downloaded, you can now build the Gossa binary. To do this, navigate to the gossa directory that was created when you downloaded the source code:

cd gossa

Next, build the Gossa binary by running the following command:

GO111MODULE=on go build

This command will compile the Gossa binary and place it in the current working directory.

Step 5: Run Gossa

Now that you have built the Gossa binary, you can run it using the following command:

./gossa

This command will start the Gossa server, which will be accessible at http://localhost:8080.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have gone through the process of installing Gossa on Manjaro Linux. By following the steps outlined in this tutorial, you should now have a working installation of Gossa on your system. With Gossa, you can quickly and easily share files and directories over the web.

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