Tutorial: Installing Podgrab on NixOS Latest

Introduction

Podgrab is a podcast client written in Python. It is an open-source project available on Github. In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to install Podgrab on NixOS Latest.

Prerequisites

For this tutorial, you will require:

• A system running NixOS Latest
• A stable internet connection

Step 1: Installing Nix

Nix is a package manager used for installing software packages on NixOS. To install Nix, open the terminal and enter the following command:

$ curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

Step 2: Install Podgrab Dependencies

Podgrab requires a few dependencies to be installed on your system. To install them, run the following command:

$ sudo nix-env -i python3
$ sudo nix-env -i libffi
$ sudo nix-env -i openssl

Step 3: Clone the Podgrab repository

Now that the dependencies are installed, we will proceed to clone the Podgrab repository. To clone the repository, run the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/akhilrex/podgrab.git

Step 4: Install Podgrab

After cloning the repository, we can proceed to install Podgrab. To do this, we will navigate to the Podgrab directory and run the following command:

$ cd podgrab
$ sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
$ sudo python setup.py install

Usage

Podgrab is now installed on your system. To use it, run the following command:

$ podgrab

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Podgrab on NixOS Latest. Now you can use it to listen to podcasts on your system. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments section below.

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