Salut à Toi is a decentralized communication platform that helps users to keep control over their digital communications. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install Salut à Toi on OpenBSD.
Before we begin the installation, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
To proceed with Salut à Toi installation, first, we need to update the OpenBSD system.
# sudo pkg_add -u
This command will update all installed packages to their newest available version.
To start, we need to install some dependencies required for Salut à Toi to work.
# sudo pkg_add -vi py3-xdg py3-spake2 py3-gobject3 py3-certifi py3-nbxmpp py3-pyasn1-modules py3-yaml py3-attr py3-asn1crypto py3-cryptography py3-setuptools py3-idna py3-pyasn1 py3-six sqlite3 curl git tor
This command will install all the necessary dependencies to run Salut à Toi on OpenBSD.
Next, we need to clone the Salut à Toi repository from GitHub.
# git clone git://repo.or.cz/sat.git
This command will clone the repository into the current directory.
After cloning the repository, let's create and activate a virtual environment for running Salut à Toi:
# cd sat
# sudo pkg_add -vi py3-virtualenv
# virtualenv .venv
# source .venv/bin/activate
These commands will create a virtual environment for running Salut à Toi.
Next, we need to install Salut à Toi:
# make install
This command will install Salut à Toi.
After installation, we need to configure Salut à Toi:
# python tools/sat.py setup all --enable-tor
This command will set up Salut à Toi with the Tor network.
Finally, we need to start Salut à Toi:
# python tools/sat.py start
This command will start Salut à Toi.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Salut à Toi on OpenBSD. You can now communicate securely and efficiently with your peers.
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