Tokumei is a lightweight and anonymous blogging platform developed in Perl. It allows users to post anonymous messages and comments without the need to create an account. In this tutorial, we will walk through the installation of Tokumei on NixOS Latest.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
The first step is to install Git. Git is required for cloning the Tokumei repository from GitHub.
To install Git, open your terminal and run the following command:
sudo nix-env -iA nixos.git
With Git installed, we can now clone the Tokumei repository from GitHub. Change to your home directory and clone the repository with the following command:
git clone https://github.com/tokumei/tokumei.git
This will create a tokumei directory in your home directory. Change into that directory with the following command:
cd tokumei
To install the dependencies required for Tokumei, we can use nix-shell. Run the following command:
nix-shell
This will install all the dependencies required to run Tokumei.
Tokumei uses a SQLite database by default. We need to create a directory for the database and set the correct permissions.
Create a data directory in your tokumei directory with the following command:
mkdir data
Set the correct permissions with the following command:
chmod 777 data
With everything set up, we can now start the Tokumei server. Run the following command:
./app.pl
This will start the server on port 5000.
To access Tokumei, open your web browser and go to http://localhost:5000/. You should see the Tokumei homepage.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Tokumei on NixOS Latest. Enjoy anonymous blogging and commenting!
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