How to Install Thredded on OpenSUSE Latest

Thredded is an open-source forum engine for Ruby on Rails web applications. In this tutorial, we will see how to install Thredded on OpenSUSE Latest using some simple steps.

Requirements

Before we start the installation process, we need to make sure that our system meets the following requirements:

• OpenSUSE latest version
• Ruby version 2.5.1 or above
• Git

Step 1: Install Ruby

We need to install Ruby on our OpenSUSE system. To install Ruby, we can use the following command:

sudo zypper in ruby

This command will install Ruby on our system.

Step 2: Install Git

Git is a version control system that is used to manage and track changes to software code. To install Git, we can use the following command:

sudo zypper in git

This command will install Git on our system.

Step 3: Install the necessary packages for building Ruby gems

We will need some packages to build Ruby gems. To install them, we can use the following command:

sudo zypper in gcc ruby-devel libxml2-devel libxslt-devel libopenssl-devel libsqlite3-devel

Step 4: Install Bundler

Bundler is a Ruby gem manager that is used to manage and install Ruby gems. To install Bundler, we can use the following command:

sudo gem install bundler

Step 5: Clone the Thredded repository

To clone the Thredded repository, we need to use the following command:

git clone https://github.com/thredded/thredded.git

This command will clone the Thredded repository to our local system.

Step 6: Install Thredded dependencies

We have to install Thredded dependencies using Bundler. To install Thredded dependencies, we need to navigate to the Thredded directory that we cloned in the previous step using the following command:

cd thredded

After that, we can use the following command to install Thredded dependencies:

bundle install

This command will install all the necessary dependencies for Thredded.

Step 7: Initialize the database

Thredded requires a database to store data. We need to initialize the database by running the following commands:

bin/rails db:create
bin/rails db:migrate

These commands will create the database and migrate the schema.

Step 8: Start the server

Now we can start the Thredded server using the following command:

bin/rails server

This command will start the server, and we can access Thredded by visiting http://localhost:3000 in our web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we saw how to install Thredded on OpenSUSE Latest using some simple steps. Thredded is a powerful forum engine that can be used for various web applications.

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