QuickShare is a tool that allows you to easily share files, links, and text between devices on your network. It is compatible with any device that has a web browser, and can be installed on Linux, macOS, and Windows. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install QuickShare on POP! OS Latest using the command line.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following:
QuickShare is built using Node.js, so you will need to install Node.js and npm to be able to run it. Run the following command in your terminal window to install Node.js:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs npm
The sudo apt-get update command will update the list of available packages on your system, and the sudo apt-get install command will install Node.js and npm.
Once the installation is complete, you can check the version of Node.js by running the following command:
node -v
Now that you have Node.js and npm installed, you can download QuickShare from GitHub. To do this, run the following command in your terminal window:
git clone https://github.com/ihexxa/quickshare.git
This will create a new folder called quickshare in your current directory, and will download all of the QuickShare files into it.
Before you can run QuickShare, you will need to install its dependencies. To do this, navigate to the quickshare folder using the following command:
cd quickshare
Once you are in the quickshare folder, run the following command to install the dependencies:
npm install
This will install all of the dependencies required by QuickShare, as well as any additional packages that it may need.
Now that you have installed QuickShare and its dependencies, you can run it using the following command:
npm start
This will start the QuickShare server, and you should see output that looks like this:
> quickshare@0.1.0 start /path/to/quickshare
> node ./bin/www
Server listening on port 3000
This means that QuickShare is running and listening for connections on port 3000. You can now access QuickShare by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:3000 on the computer where QuickShare is installed.
To share files with QuickShare, simply drag and drop the file onto the QuickShare web page. You can also share links and text by copying and pasting them into the QuickShare web page.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install QuickShare on POP! OS Latest using the command line. We also showed you how to share files, links, and text using QuickShare. QuickShare is a powerful tool that can make it easier to share files between devices on your network.
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