Socialhome is a free and open-source social networking platform that allows users to create and manage their own personal profiles, as well as interact with other users through a variety of social features.
In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps of installing Socialhome on Manjaro, a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux.
Before proceeding with the installation process, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to update your system to make sure that you have the latest packages installed on your Manjaro distribution.
Open your terminal and run the following command:
sudo pacman -Syyu
This may take some time depending on the speed of your internet connection and the number of packages that need to be updated.
Socialhome relies on some dependencies that must be installed before proceeding.
Open your terminal and install the required packages using the following command:
sudo pacman -S postgresql python-django python-pillow python-psycopg2 python-ldap python-bcrypt
In addition, you need to install additional dependencies that are required for building the frontend of Socialhome.
sudo pacman -S npm nodejs
Now that we have our dependencies installed, we can proceed to download and install Socialhome.
In the terminal, navigate to the directory where you would like to install Socialhome and clone the Git repository by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/jaywink/socialhome.git
After cloning the repository, navigate to the newly created Socialhome directory and install Socialhome using the following command:
cd socialhome
./install.sh
This will start the installation process of Socialhome, which may take some time depending on the speed of your machine.
Once the installation is completed successfully, run the development server using the following command:
./manage.py runserver
This will start Socialhome and you can access it in your web browser by navigating to http://localhost:8000/.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Socialhome on your Manjaro machine.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Socialhome on Manjaro. Socialhome is a powerful and feature-rich social networking platform that can be used to create and manage your own personal social network. Give it a try and see if it meets your needs!
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