twister.net.co/">Twister is a peer-to-peer microblogging platform that allows users to publish short messages, similar to Twitter. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Twister on NetBSD.
Before you start, make sure you have the following:
Twister requires several dependencies to run on NetBSD. To install them, run the following command as root:
pkgin install libevent libssl sqlite3 qt5-ui-tools-qtbase qt5-ui-tools-qtbase-sqlite qrencode
Once the dependencies are installed, download the latest version of Twister from the official website. You can use wget to download the package:
wget https://github.com/miguelfreitas/twister-core/releases/download/v0.9.32/twister-netbsd-x64-v0.9.32.tar.gz
Then extract the archive:
tar xzf twister-netbsd-x64-v0.9.32.tar.gz
This will create a directory called twister-core in the current working directory.
Next, we need to configure Twister by editing the twister.conf file. Change to the twister-core directory and open the file using your preferred text editor:
cd twister-core
vi twister.conf
You'll need to set a username and password to access your Twister node. Enter your desired values for the rpcuser and rpcpassword variables. You can also change other settings in this file, such as the network port and database location.
To start the Twister daemon, run the following command:
./twisterd
This will start the Twister node in the background. You can check its status by running:
./twisterd getinfo
You've successfully installed Twister on NetBSD! Now you can use the Twister client to connect to your node and start microblogging.
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