Yacy is a peer-to-peer search engine that can be easily installed on nixOS using the command-line interface. This tutorial will walk you through the step-by-step instructions to complete the installation process.
Before installing Yacy, make sure that you have the latest version of Nix installed on your system. You can download and install it by opening the terminal and running the following commands:
wget https://nixos.org/nix/install
sh install
To install Yacy on nixOS Latest, run the following command:
$ nix-env -iA nixos.yacy
This will download all the necessary files and install Yacy on your system.
Once you have installed Yacy, you can start it by running the following command:
$ yacy_start
This will start the Yacy server and launch a web browser. The server will be available at http://localhost:8090/ by default.
You can customize your Yacy configuration by editing the configuration file located at /etc/yacy/yacy.conf. For example, you can change the port number, the language settings, or specify additional search filters.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Yacy on nixOS Latest. By following these instructions, you can easily set up a peer-to-peer search engine to search the web more securely and privately.
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