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.
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
Now that we have all the dependencies installed, let's proceed with the installation of Paperless-ngx.
Open the terminal window and create a virtual environment for Paperless-ngx:
virtualenv --python=python3 paperless
Activate the virtual environment:
source paperless/bin/activate
Install Paperless-ngx using pip:
pip install paperless-ng
Once the installation is complete, we need to configure Paperless-ngx before we can start using it.
Create a configuration file:
nano ~/.paperless/settings.toml
Add the following configuration to the file:
[general]
DEBUG = False
SECRET_KEY = <insert_your_secret_key_here>
[documents]
MEDIA_ROOT = ~/paperless/media/
Save and close the file.
Now that we have everything set up, let's start Paperless-ngx.
Activate the virtual environment:
source paperless/bin/activate
Start Paperless-ngx:
paperless-ng start
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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