DOCAT is an open-source tool for securely sharing files and text between computers over a network. This tutorial will show you how to install DOCAT on your POP! OS Latest using the terminal.
Before you proceed, make sure you have the administrative privileges required to install packages on your system.
DOCAT requires a few dependencies to run. Open the terminal and run the following command to install them:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libz-dev libsqlite3-dev pkg-config
This will update your package manager and install the necessary dependencies.
DOCAT is written in Rust programming language, so we need to install Rust on our system. Open a new terminal window and run the command:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
This will install Rust compiler and the cargo package manager.
After the installation completed, run this command to add Rust to your PATH:
source $HOME/.cargo/env
Now that we have Rust installed, we can clone the DOCAT repository from GitHub. Run the command:
git clone https://github.com/docat-org/docat.git
this will clone the DOCAT repository from Github to the current directory.
With the repository cloned, navigate to the DOCAT directory:
cd docat
Use the following command to build DOCAT:
cargo build --release
This might take some time to complete. Once it's done, you'll find the binary at the following path:
target/release/docat
To install DOCAT globally on your system, run the following command:
sudo cp target/release/docat /usr/local/bin/
This will copy the DOCAT binary to /usr/local/bin, which is in the system's PATH.
You should now have DOCAT installed on your POP! OS Latest.
To test if DOCAT is installed correctly, run the following command:
docat --help
This should display the help menu for DOCAT.
In this tutorial, we've shown you how to install DOCAT on POP! OS Latest. It's a simple process, but it does require a few dependencies and the installation of Rust. Once it's installed, you'll have a powerful tool for securely sharing files and text across a network.
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