QuickShare is a tool that lets you share files from your terminal with just a few commands. It runs on Python and can be installed on any platform, including NixOS.
Here are the steps to install QuickShare on NixOS Latest:
Before we can install QuickShare, we need to make sure that our system has all the dependencies required to run it. Here are the packages we need to install:
sudo nix-env -i python3
sudo nix-env -i git
Next, we will clone the QuickShare repository to our system. This can be done using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/ihexxa/quickshare.git
This will create a new directory called "quickshare" in your current working directory.
Now that we have cloned the QuickShare repository, we can install it on our system using the following commands:
cd quickshare
sudo python3 setup.py install
This will install QuickShare on your system and make it available for use.
To test if QuickShare has been successfully installed on your system, run the following command:
quickshare -h
This should display the help menu for QuickShare.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed QuickShare on your NixOS Latest system. Now, you can start using it to share files with your friends and colleagues.
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