How to install Asciinema on NetBSD

Asciinema is a popular terminal screen recording utility. Asciinema Server is a hosted web application that lets you share and play recorded terminal sessions. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Asciinema on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure you have the following:

• A NetBSD instance
• Root access to the system
• Basic knowledge of NetBSD and command-line interfaces

Step 1: Installing Dependencies

We need the following packages to install Asciinema on NetBSD:

• Python 2.7
• Pip (Python package installer)

To install these dependencies, run the following command:

pkg_add py27-pip

Step 2: Installing Asciinema

Now that we have the necessary dependencies, we can proceed to install the Asciinema CLI tool:

pip install asciinema

Step 3: Verifying Installation

To verify that Asciinema has been installed successfully, run the following command:

asciinema --version

If the installation was successful, you should see the version number of the Asciinema CLI tool.

Step 4: Installing Asciinema Server

To install Asciinema Server, we need to clone the server repository from Github:

git clone https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-server.git

This will create a directory named asciinema-server in the current working directory.

Step 5: Running Asciinema Server

To run Asciinema Server, navigate to the asciinema-server directory and run the following command:

./run

This will start Asciinema Server on your NetBSD instance. By default, the server will listen on port 8080. You can access the server by visiting http://localhost:8080 in your web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Asciinema and Asciinema Server on NetBSD. You can now start recording and sharing terminal sessions using Asciinema.

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