How to Install The Lounge on NetBSD

The Lounge is a modern web-based IRC client written in Node.js. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to install The Lounge on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we can start the installation process, we need to make sure that the following prerequisites are in place:

• NetBSD operating system installed and running.
• A non-root user with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Install Node.js and npm

The first step is to install Node.js and npm on our NetBSD system. We can do this by using the pkgin package manager.

1. Update the package index:

sudo pkgin update

2. Install Node.js and npm:

sudo pkgin install nodejs npm

Once the installation process is complete, we can check the version of Node.js and npm by running the following commands:

node -v
npm -v

Step 2: Install The Lounge

Now that we have Node.js and npm installed on our system, we can proceed with the installation of The Lounge.

1. Create a new directory where we'll install The Lounge:

mkdir ~/thelounge
cd ~/thelounge

2. Install The Lounge using npm:

sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm thelounge

Step 3: Configure The Lounge

The default configuration file for The Lounge is located at ~/.lounge/config.js. We need to edit this file to set up The Lounge.

1. Open the configuration file in a text editor:

nano ~/.lounge/config.js

2. Change the host and port settings to reflect our system's hostname and the port we want The Lounge to listen on.

{
  "server": {
    "listen": "[::]:9000",
    "hostname": "example.com",
    "public": "https://example.com:9000/",
    "reverseProxy": false
  }
  ...
}

3. Save and exit the file.

Step 4: Start The Lounge

With The Lounge installed and configured, we can now start the service:

thelounge start

This will start The Lounge as a daemon, running in the background.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to install The Lounge on NetBSD. We installed Node.js and npm, installed The Lounge using npm, and configured the service to listen on the appropriate hostname and port. Finally, we started The Lounge as a daemon.

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