Installing Glowing Bear on OpenBSD

Glowing Bear is a web front-end for WeeChat, an CLI chat client. It provides a modern and user-friendly interface for WeeChat users. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Glowing Bear on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

• OpenBSD system with root access
• WeeChat installed and configured
• Internet connectivity

Steps

1. Install required packages:

# pkg_add -v py3-setuptools py3-cffi py3-numpy py-numpy,python%3.9 git

2. Clone Glowing Bear repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear

3. Change to the Glowing Bear directory:

$ cd glowing-bear

4. Install Glowing Bear:

# python3 setup.py install

5. Create a configuration file for Glowing Bear:

$ cp config.py.example config.py

6. Edit the configuration file to set the WeeChat settings:

$ vi config.py

Set the following variables in the file:

SERVER = '127.0.0.1'
WEB_PATH = '/weechat/'
WEB_PORT = 9001
WEB_SSL = False

7. Start WeeChat with relay support:

$ wee -d ~/.weechat/plugins -r relay add ssl.weechat 9001 password
$ wee -d ~/.weechat/plugins -r relay on

8. Run Glowing Bear:

$ gb

9. Access Glowing Bear in a web browser at http://localhost:8080/weechat/.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Glowing Bear on OpenBSD.

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