Inventaire is an open-source tool that helps you create a natural and collaborative inventory of everything you own, using linked open data. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Inventaire on NixOS Latest.
Before you start with the installation process, ensure that you have the following:
Inventaire is built on Node.js, so the first step is to install Node.js and NPM. To do this, run the following command:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.nodejs-14_x
This command will install the latest stable version of Node.js and NPM available in the Nix package manager.
Inventaire requires a database to store its data, and we will use MongoDB for this purpose. To install MongoDB, run the following command:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.mongodb
This command will install the latest stable version of MongoDB available in the Nix package manager.
To download Inventaire, clone the GitHub repository:
git clone https://github.com/inventaire/inventaire.git
This command will create a new directory named Inventaire in your current working directory and download the latest version of Inventaire.
Change your current directory to the Inventaire directory:
cd inventaire
Now, install the dependencies using NPM:
npm install
This command will download and install all the required dependencies for Inventaire.
Inventaire comes with a default configuration file named default-config.json
. Copy this file to a new file named config.json
:
cp default-config.json config.json
Now, open the config.json
file in a text editor and make the following changes:
mongodb_uri
value to the connection URL of your MongoDB database.port
value to the desired port number on which you want to run Inventaire.To start Inventaire, run the following command:
npm start
This command will start Inventaire on the port number you specified in the config.json
file. You can access Inventaire by visiting the following URL in your web browser:
http://localhost:3000
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Inventaire on NixOS Latest. Now you can start using Inventaire to create an inventory of everything you own.
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