Habitica is a popular habit tracker app that helps you stay organized and motivated. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Habitica on nixOS latest.
Before you start, make sure that you have the following:
First, you need to install some dependencies required for Habitica to run smoothly on nixOS.
sudo nix-env -i nodejs-14.x
This command will install nodejs-14.x, which is required to run Habitica.
Next, you need to download the Habitica source code from the official website or from Github.
git clone https://github.com/HabitRPG/habitica.git
cd habitica
This will clone the Habitica source code to your local machine and change to that directory.
Before you can run Habitica, you need to install its dependencies.
npm install
This will download all the required dependencies for Habitica to your local machine.
Habitica needs some configuration to run correctly. You can do this by creating a .env file in the root directory of the downloaded source code.
cp .env.example .env
Then, you need to edit the .env file to include your Habitica credentials.
nano .env
Replace the API_KEY and API_SECRET with your Habitica credentials.
Finally, you can start Habitica by running the following command in the source code directory.
npm start
This will start the Habitica server on your nixOS machine.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Habitica on nixOS latest. You can now start tracking your habits and goals with this powerful tool. We hope you found this tutorial helpful!
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