Installing Rapidbay on POP! OS

In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Rapidbay on the latest version of POP! OS. Rapidbay is a web-based torrent management and streaming tool that allows you to search and stream torrents directly from your browser.

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure that you have the following prerequisites installed on your system:

• POP! OS latest version
• Git
• Node.js
• npm

Step 1 - Clone the Rapidbay repository

First, open a terminal window and clone the Rapidbay repository from GitHub using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/hauxir/rapidbay.git

Step 2 - Install the dependencies

Once the repository is cloned, navigate to the Rapidbay directory using the following command:

cd rapidbay

Next, install the dependencies by running the following command:

npm install

Step 3 - Configure Rapidbay

Before starting Rapidbay, you need to configure it. Open the config.json file using any text editor and modify the following settings:

• torrentClient: Specify the name of your torrent client
• downloadDir: Specify the directory where you want to store downloaded files
• port: Specify the port on which Rapidbay will listen

Step 4 - Start Rapidbay

Once you have finished the configuration, you can start Rapidbay using the following command:

npm start

Rapidbay will now start and listen on the port you specified in the configuration file.

Step 5 - Access Rapidbay

Open your favorite browser and navigate to the following URL:

http://localhost:4000

You should now see the Rapidbay web interface. You can now search and stream torrents from your browser.

Conclusion

This concludes our tutorial on how to install Rapidbay on the latest version of POP! OS. We hope this tutorial was helpful and you were able to successfully install and configure Rapidbay.

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