LinkAce is a self-hosted bookmark manager that enables users to save, organize, and share bookmarks from a single centralized location. In this tutorial, we will install LinkAce on Manjaro, a popular Linux distribution, step-by-step.
Before installing any application, it is recommended to update Manjaro's system to ensure that we have the latest packages and security updates.
Run the following command to update the system:
sudo pacman -Syu
LinkAce requires a LAMP stack to work on Manjaro. LAMP is a stack of technologies that include Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
To install LAMP stack, we will use the ‘mariadb’ package which includes both MySQL and MariaDB.
Execute the following command to install the LAMP stack:
sudo pacman -S apache mariadb php php-apache php-gd php-intl php-pgsql
Start the Apache and MariaDB services using the following commands:
sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo systemctl enable mariadb.service
sudo systemctl start httpd.service
sudo systemctl enable httpd.service
Composer is a dependency management tool used for installing and updating PHP packages. LinkAce requires Composer to be installed. To install Composer, run the following command:
sudo pacman -S composer
Clone the LinkAce repository to your server using the git command:
git clone https://github.com/Kovah/LinkAce.git
Change the directory and navigate to the LinkAce directory:
cd LinkAce
Use Composer to install LinkAce dependencies,
composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader
Copy the .env.example file to .env:
cp .env.example .env
Edit the .env file with your MySQL/MariaDB database credentials:
APP_ENV=prod
DATABASE_URL=mysql://db_user:db_password@localhost/linkace
Execute the following command to create database and run migration:
php bin/console doctrine:database:create
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate
Run the following command to start the Symfony web server:
symfony server:start
You should be able to access the LinkAce website through your browser.
Navigate to http://localhost:8000 and start using LinkAce.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install LinkAce, a self-hosted bookmark manager, on the Manjaro Linux distribution. We covered installing the LAMP stack, cloning LinkAce from GitHub, and configuring Symfony. I hope this tutorial helps you get started with LinkAce.
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