How to Install Paperless-ngx on Manjaro

Paperless-ngx is a powerful document management system that allows users to organize, search, and manage digital documents. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Paperless-ngx on your Manjaro machine.

Prerequisites

• A Manjaro instance with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Install Required Dependencies

Before we begin the installation of Paperless-ngx, we need to make sure we have all the required dependencies installed.

Open the terminal window and run the following command:

sudo pacman -S python python-pip python-virtualenv python-wheel python-setuptools python-pyparsing python-pygments python-pyopenssl python-pytest python-pylint python-reportlab python-toml python-tz python-magic libjpeg-turbo libjpeg-turbo-devel libtiff libtiff-devel

Step 2: Install Paperless-ngx

Now that we have all the dependencies installed, let's proceed with the installation of Paperless-ngx.

1. Open the terminal window and create a virtual environment for Paperless-ngx:

   virtualenv --python=python3 paperless
   

2. Activate the virtual environment:

   source paperless/bin/activate
   

3. Install Paperless-ngx using pip:

   pip install paperless-ng
   

Step 3: Configure Paperless-ngx

Once the installation is complete, we need to configure Paperless-ngx before we can start using it.

1. Create a configuration file:

   nano ~/.paperless/settings.toml
   

2. Add the following configuration to the file:

   [general]
   DEBUG = False
   SECRET_KEY = <insert_your_secret_key_here>
   
   [documents]
   MEDIA_ROOT = ~/paperless/media/
   

3. Save and close the file.

Step 4: Start Paperless-ngx

Now that we have everything set up, let's start Paperless-ngx.

1. Activate the virtual environment:

   source paperless/bin/activate
   

2. Start Paperless-ngx:

   paperless-ng start
   

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Paperless-ngx on your Manjaro machine. You can now start organizing and managing your digital documents.

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