Gossa is an open source platform for managing your multimedia files. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Gossa on the latest version of NixOS.
Before proceeding, make sure that you have the following:
To install Gossa on NixOS, we need to add the package to the system configuration file, configuration.nix. This can be done by opening the file and adding the following lines to it:
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
gossa
];
Once the package is added to the system configuration, save the file.
After installing the Gossa package, we need to configure it. To do that, create a new configuration file in /etc/gossa/gossa.conf, and add the following lines:
[database]
type = "sqlite3"
path = "/var/lib/gossa/gossa.db"
[web]
address = "0.0.0.0:8000"
baseurl = "/"
theme = "default"
description = "My Gossa installation"
In the above configuration file, the database section defines the type and path of the database that Gossa will use, while the web section defines the host and port on which Gossa will listen.
After configuring Gossa, we need to create its database. To do that, run the following command:
sudo gossa-db-init
This will create an empty SQLite3 database at /var/lib/gossa/gossa.db.
Now that we have installed and configured Gossa and created its database, we can start the service. To do that, run the following command:
sudo systemctl start gossa
This will start the Gossa service.
After starting the service, we can access Gossa by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8000 or http://<your-ip>:8000, if you are accessing it from a remote machine.
In this tutorial, you have learned how to install, configure, and start Gossa on the latest version of NixOS. You can now use Gossa to manage your multimedia files.
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