WooCommerce is a popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress websites. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install WooCommerce on POP! OS, a Debian-based Linux distribution.
WooCommerce plugin requires Apache and PHP to be installed on your system. To install Apache and PHP, open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql
WooCommerce also requires a MySQL database to store its data. To install MySQL, run the following command:
sudo apt install mysql-server
During the installation, you will be prompted to set a password for the MySQL root user.
Download the latest version of WordPress from https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz and extract it to the /var/www/html/ directory:
cd /var/www/html/
sudo wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf latest.tar.gz
sudo mv wordpress/* .
sudo rm -rf wordpress latest.tar.gz
To install WooCommerce, log in to your WordPress dashboard, and navigate to Plugins > Add New. Search for "WooCommerce" and click on Install Now. After the installation is complete, click on the Activate button.
After you activate WooCommerce, you will be redirected to the setup wizard. Follow the steps to set up your store, including selecting a payment gateway and shipping options.
That's it! You have successfully installed WooCommerce on POP! OS and set up your e-commerce store.
WooCommerce is a powerful plugin that can help you create and manage an online store on your WordPress website. By following this tutorial, you should now have a working installation of WooCommerce on your POP! OS system.
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