Guacamole is an open-source remote desktop gateway application that provides access to your desktop from anywhere over the Internet. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to install Guacamole on NetBSD.
Before installing Guacamole on your NetBSD system, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
Before installing Guacamole, you need to install the dependencies required by Guacamole, including Tomcat and PostgreSQL. To do this, run the following command in your terminal:
sudo pkgin -y install tomcat postgresql10-server
The next step is to configure PostgreSQL. To do this, you need to initialize the PostgreSQL cluster before starting the PostgreSQL service. To initialize the PostgreSQL cluster, run the following command:
sudo /usr/pkg/bin/pg_ctl initdb -D /var/postgresql/data
Now start the PostgreSQL service using the following command:
sudo /usr/pkg/bin/pg_ctl start -D /var/postgresql/data -l /var/postgresql/logfile
To install Guacamole, you can download the Guacamole .war file from the Guacamole website or use the following command:
sudo pkgin -y install guacamole
After installing Guacamole, you need to configure it by editing the guacamole.properties file located at:
/usr/pkg/etc/guacamole/guacamole.properties
Open the file in your preferred text editor and replace the values of the database properties with the following:
postgresql-hostname: localhost
postgresql-port: 5432
postgresql-database: guacamole_db
postgresql-username: guacamole_user
postgresql-password: your_password_here
After configuring Guacamole, start the Tomcat service using the following command:
sudo /etc/rc.d/tomcat start
Open your web browser and enter the URL http://localhost:8080/guacamole to access the Guacamole web interface.
In this tutorial, you have learned how to install Guacamole on NetBSD. Guacamole is a powerful remote desktop gateway application that provides a seamless desktop experience from anywhere in the world. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comments section below.
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