Inventaire is an open source web application for managing and sharing personal libraries. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps of installing Inventaire on NetBSD.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
It's always a good practice to run applications as a non-root user. So let's create a new user for the Inventaire application.
# useradd -m -s /bin/sh inventaire
# passwd inventaire
Inventaire is hosted on Github, so we need to install Git in order to download the source code.
# pkg_add git
Now, let's clone the Inventaire repository using Git.
$ su inventaire
$ git clone https://github.com/inventaire/inventaire.git
Inventaire has several dependencies that need to be installed first.
$ cd inventaire
$ npm install
Inventaire relies on configuration files to run properly. Let's copy the example configuration file and customize it for our needs.
$ cp config/default.example.json config/default.json
Open the config/default.json file and edit it with your favorite text editor. Make sure to update the server.host and server.port settings to match your NetBSD setup.
Finally, let's start the application.
$ npm start
The first time you run the application, it will take a few minutes to build the necessary files. Once it's done, you should see a message saying that Inventaire is running on a specific URL.
You have successfully installed Inventaire on NetBSD. You can now start managing and sharing your personal library with the world!
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