WBO (WhiteBoard Online) is an online whiteboard software that allows users to collaborate in real-time. It provides an easy way to create, share, and edit ideas with others. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WBO on Pop!_OS Latest.
Before we begin, you need to have the following:
Open the terminal in Pop!_OS by pressing the Ctrl + Alt + T
key combination.
Clone the WBO repository from GitHub using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/lovasoa/whitebophir.git
This command will download the WBO source code to your system.
Node.js is required to run WBO on your system. If you don't have Node.js installed, you can install it by typing the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt-get install nodejs
You also need to install the Node.js package manager (npm
) to manage the dependencies of WBO:
sudo apt-get install npm
Navigate to the WBO directory by running:
cd whitebophir
Once you're in the WBO directory, install the required dependencies by typing:
npm install
Start WBO by running the following command:
npm start
This command will start WBO, and the output should look something like this:
> whitebophir@1.0.0 start /home/username/whitebophir
> node server.js
Listening on port 8080
WBO is now running on your system. You can access it by opening your web browser and typing in the following URL:
http://localhost:8080/
You should now see the WBO login screen. If you see this screen, it means that WBO is installed and running properly.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install WBO on Pop!_OS Latest. Now you can start using WBO to collaborate with your team or friends in real-time.
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