Rustpad is a free and open-source collaborative text editor. It allows you to edit documents in real-time with other people, making it ideal for remote teams, coding and writing collaboratively. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Rustpad on POP! OS Latest.
Before installing Rustpad, ensure that you have a POP! OS Latest installed and an active internet connection.
The first step is to install some of the system dependencies required by Rustpad.
You can do this by opening the terminal and running the following command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git build-essential libssl-dev pkg-config
This command will update the package list on your system and install git, build-essential, libssl-dev, and pkg-config.
To build Rustpad, we need to install Rust and Cargo.
To do this, run the following command in your terminal:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
Note: You can find other installation methods for Rust and Cargo here.
After running the above command, you will be prompted to select the installation options for Rust. By default, Rust will be installed in the ~/.cargo/bin directory, which we will add to our system path.
Run the following command in your terminal to add Rust and Cargo to your system path:
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
Now that we have installed all the dependencies, we can clone and build Rustpad.
To do this, run the following commands in the terminal:
git clone https://github.com/rustpad/rustpad.git
cd rustpad
cargo build --release
This command will clone the Rustpad repository from GitHub, navigate to the rustpad directory, and build Rustpad in release mode.
Note: The build process may take some time depending on your system's resources.
After the build is complete, you can run Rustpad by executing the following command:
./target/release/rustpad-server
This command will start the Rustpad server on the default port 7878.
You can now access Rustpad by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:7878.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Rustpad on POP! OS Latest. Now you can collaborate with others using Rustpad's real-time collaborative text editing feature.
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