Tinode is an open-source messaging platform built using modern technologies such as Node.js, React, and PostgreSQL. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Tinode on POP! OS Latest.
Before installing Tinode, we need to ensure that all the required dependencies are installed on your system. To install these dependencies, open a terminal window and run the following command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential libpq-dev postgresql postgresql-contrib libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev python3-pip redis-server
Next, we need to clone the Tinode repository using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/tinode/chat
Once the repository is cloned, navigate into the chat directory using the following command:
cd chat
Tinode uses Python for its backend, so we need to install the required Python dependencies. We recommend creating a Python virtual environment to keep the dependencies isolated from your system's Python installation.
To create a virtual environment and install the Python dependencies, run the following commands:
python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
Tinode requires a PostgreSQL database to store its data. We need to create a new PostgreSQL database and user for Tinode.
To create a new database and user, run the following commands:
sudo -u postgres psql
CREATE DATABASE tinode;
CREATE USER tinode WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'tinodepassword';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE tinode TO tinode;
\q
This will create a new database named tinode and a new user named tinode with the password tinodepassword. We have also granted all privileges to the tinode user on the tinode database.
Tinode needs a configuration file to run. Copy the example configuration file to config.py using the following command:
cp config.example.py config.py
Next, open the config.py file in a text editor and update the database settings with the information of the PostgreSQL database we created earlier:
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
'NAME': 'tinode',
'USER': 'tinode',
'PASSWORD': 'tinodepassword',
'HOST': 'localhost',
'PORT': '',
}
}
With all of the above steps complete, we are now ready to start Tinode. To start Tinode, activate the Python virtual environment we created earlier and run the following command:
python3 manage.py runserver
This will start Tinode on your local machine.
You have successfully installed Tinode on your POP! OS Latest machine. Tinode is now ready to use!
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