In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Plik on NixOS. Plik is a free and open-source software for file sharing that allows you to easily and securely share files over the internet.
Plik is distributed through GitHub, which uses Git as their version control system. Therefore, we need to install Git on our NixOS system if it is not already installed.
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.git
We will now clone Plik's repository from GitHub using Git.
git clone https://github.com/root-gg/plik.git
Plik requires some dependencies to be installed on our system, such as Go, GNU Make, and GCC. We can install these dependencies using Nix.
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.go nixos.make nixos.gcc
To compile Plik, navigate to the cloned repository and run the following command:
make
This will compile the Plik binary and place it in the ./bin directory.
Finally, to run Plik, execute the following command:
./bin/plik
This will start the Plik server, which can now be accessed via a web browser at http://localhost:8080.
And voila! You now have Plik successfully installed on your NixOS system.
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