Installing Thumbor on NetBSD

This tutorial will guide you through the installation process of Thumbor, which is an open-source image manipulation tool, on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

• NetBSD machine
• Root access to the machine
• Python installed on the machine
• pip - package installer for Python

Installation Steps

1. First, let's make sure that all the necessary packages are installed on the system. Open a terminal and run the following command:

   pkgin update
   pkgin install libjpeg-turbo tiff libpng imagemagick
   

2. Install pip by running the following command:

   curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
   python get-pip.py --user
   

3. Now, let's install the Thumbor package. Run the following command:

   pip install thumbor
   

4. Thumbor requires a configuration file. You can copy the example configuration file from the package by running the following command:

   cp ~/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/thumbor/thumbor.conf.sample thumbor.conf
   

5. Let's edit the configuration file to fit our needs. Open the "thumbor.conf" file in your favorite text editor and make the necessary changes.

6. Now that Thumbor is installed and configured, we need to start the server. Run the following command:

   thumbor -p 8000 -c /path/to/thumbor.conf
   

   This command will start the Thumbor server on port 8000 and use the configuration file we just edited. If you want to run Thumbor as a daemon, add the -d parameter at the end of the command.

7. Congratulations! You have successfully installed and started Thumbor on your NetBSD machine.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we went through the steps required to install and configure Thumbor on NetBSD. With Thumbor, you can now manipulate and optimize your images in a fast and efficient way.

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