How to Install Surfer on Manjaro

Surfer is a PWA (progressive web application) for Cloudron that allows you to access your Cloudron instances securely and easily from your desktop. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Surfer on Manjaro Linux.

Prerequisites

Installation Steps

  1. Open up a terminal window on your Manjaro Linux machine.

  2. Run the following commands to install Git on your machine:

    sudo pacman -S git
    
  3. Clone the Surfer repository by running the following command:

    git clone https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/surfer.git
    
  4. Navigate to the Surfer directory using the following command:

    cd surfer
    
  5. Install the dependencies by running the following command:

    npm install
    
  6. Build the application using the following command:

    npm run build
    
  7. Start Surfer by running the following command:

    npm run start
    

    Surfer should now be running on your machine, and you should be able to access it by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:4050.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Surfer on Manjaro Linux. With Surfer, you can securely and easily access your Cloudron instances from your desktop. We hope this tutorial was helpful to you. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them below.

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