Fiche is a simple tool designed to share your files over the internet securely. It's an excellent solution for private file sharing over a local network or the internet. Fiche is an open-source project available on GitHub. It is effortless to install on the Linux operating system. In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the process of installing fiche on NixOS Latest.
Before we proceed with the installation process, ensure that you have the following:
Git is a distributed version control system. It's an essential tool for developers and programmers. To install Git, use the following command:
nix-env -i git
After installing Git, use the following command to clone the fiche repository from GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/solusipse/fiche.git
To run fiche, we need some dependencies installed. Use the following command to install the required dependencies:
nix-env -i ncurses
Use the following commands to build and install fiche on your NixOS system:
cd fiche
make
sudo make install
After the installation process, you can use the fiche command to start it.
To test if fiche is installed correctly on your system, use the following commands:
echo "Hello, World!" | fiche
The above command will upload the "Hello, World!" text to fiche. You will get a URL in return, which you can use to access the uploaded content.
Fiche is a simple but powerful tool to share your files over the internet. In this tutorial, we showed you how to install fiche on NixOS Latest. Now, you can start using fiche to share your files privately and securely over the internet.
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