Installing Mejiro on NixOS

Mejiro is a web-based tool that offers a user-friendly interface for Redis, which is an open-source database management system. Here are the steps for installing Mejiro on NixOS latest version:

1. Log in to your NixOS system as a root user.

2. Open the terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T.

3. Install the git package by running the following command:

   sudo nix-env -iA nixos.git
   

4. Clone the Mejiro repository from Github using git:

   git clone https://github.com/dmpop/mejiro.git
   

5. Change the directory to the cloned Mejiro folder by running:

   cd mejiro
   

6. Install Mejiro's dependencies by running:

   sudo nix-env -f default.nix -i mejiro.deps
   

7. Build Mejiro by running:

   nix-build
   

8. Start Mejiro by running:

   ./result/bin/mejiro
   

9. The Mejiro web interface should now be accessible on your NixOS system at http://localhost:3000/.

10. If you want to start Mejiro as a service, create a system unit file for it:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/mejiro.service

11. Add the following content to the system unit file:

[Unit]
Description=Mejiro web interface

[Service]
ExecStart=/path/to/mejiro/result/bin/mejiro

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

12. Save and close the file.

13. Reload the systemctl daemon by running:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

14. Enable the Mejiro service to start on boot by running:

sudo systemctl enable mejiro.service

15. Start the Mejiro service by running:

sudo systemctl start mejiro.service

16. You can now access Mejiro's web interface by visiting http://localhost:3000/ in your browser.

That's it! You've successfully installed and started Mejiro on NixOS latest version.

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