NATS is a messaging system that is designed to be fast, efficient, and lightweight. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install NATS on Manjaro.
Before we install NATS, we need to make sure that our system meets the following requirements:
We will be installing NATS using the AUR (Arch User Repository).
Open a terminal window and update the package list using the following command:
sudo pacman -Syu
Install the Git and Base-devel packages using the following command:
sudo pacman -S git base-devel
Clone the AUR repository for NATS by running the following command:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/nats-server.git
Navigate to the cloned directory by running the following command:
cd nats-server
Build and install the package using the following command:
makepkg -si
This command will download and install all the necessary dependencies for the NATS server automatically.
Once the installation is complete, start the NATS server by running the following command:
nats-server
This will start the NATS server with default configuration options.
To verify that the installation was successful, we can do the following:
Open a new terminal window and run the following command to download the NATS CLI tool:
curl -L https://github.com/nats-io/nats-cli/releases/download/v2.4.3/nats-linux-amd64-v2.4.3.tar.gz | tar xzvf - && sudo mv nats-v2.4.3-linux-amd64/nats /usr/local/bin/
Open another terminal window and run the following command to verify that the NATS server is running:
nats-ping
If the server is running, this command should return a "PONG" response.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install NATS on Manjaro using the AUR repository. We also verified the installation by running a simple command. With NATS installed, we can now start using it for messaging and other communication purposes.
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