Glowing Bear is a self-hosted web frontend for WeeChat. It is designed to be fast and modular, allowing users to customize its appearance and behavior to their liking.
In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Glowing Bear on the latest version of POP! OS.
Before we begin, you will need:
The first step in installing Glowing Bear is to install WeeChat. WeeChat is a fast, lightweight, and extensible chat client that provides the backend for Glowing Bear.
Open a terminal and run the following command to install WeeChat:
sudo apt install weechat
Glowing Bear is built with Node.js, so we need to install it on our system.
Run the following commands to add the NodeSource repository and install Node.js:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt install -y nodejs
Verify that the installation was successful by running the following command:
node -v
This should output the version number of Node.js that you just installed.
Now that we have WeeChat and Node.js installed, we can proceed to install Glowing Bear.
Clone the Glowing Bear repository from GitHub by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear.git
Change into the Glowing Bear directory:
cd glowing-bear
Install the necessary dependencies for Glowing Bear:
npm install
Finally, start Glowing Bear:
npm start
This should open a new window in your default web browser, pointing to Glowing Bear's login page.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Glowing Bear on your POP! OS system.
In this tutorial, we guided you through the process of installing Glowing Bear on the latest version of POP! OS. Glowing Bear is a powerful and customizable web frontend for WeeChat, and we hope that this tutorial has helped you get started with using it.
If you liked this tutorial, make sure to check out our other tutorials on the POP! OS Wiki and GitHub Gist.
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