nntpchan/doc/building.md

Building NNPTChan

This document will help you build the NNTPChan software from the source code.

Requirements

NNTPChan can run on the following operating systems:

• Linux
• FreeBSD

Dependancies:

• imagemagick
• ffmpeg
• sox
• go
• GNU make

Debian instructions

These are installation instructions for Debian.

Install Go

Install the latest version of the Go programming language from the Go website.

Install the dependancies

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install imagemagick ffmpeg sox build-essential git ca-certificates postgresql postgresql-client

Configure PostgreSQL:

# su - postgres -c "createuser --pwprompt --encrypted srnd"
# su - postgres -c "createdb srnd"

Get the NNTPChan source

git clone https://github.com/majestrate/nntpchan --depth=1
cd nntpchan

Now compile!

Run make:

make

Next set up the daemon