Installing Liteshort on Alpine Linux Latest

Liteshort is a URL shortener built with Go language. It is a lightweight and customizable alternative to existing URL shorteners.

To install Liteshort on Alpine Linux Latest, follow the steps below.

Step 1: Update the package lists

Before installing any software, it is recommended to update the package lists to get the latest version of packages available on the system.

sudo apk update

Step 2: Install Git and Go

Liteshort is built with Go language and its source code is available on Git. Therefore, Git and Go language are required to download, compile and install Liteshort on the system.

sudo apk add git go

Step 3: Clone the Liteshort repository

To download Liteshort source code from Git, clone the repository using the command below.

git clone https://git.ikl.sh/132ikl/liteshort.git

Step 4: Build and Install Liteshort

After cloning the repository, navigate to the Liteshort directory and build the program using the following command.

cd liteshort
go build

Once the build process is complete, you can install Liteshort using the command below.

sudo cp liteshort /usr/local/bin/

Step 5: Run Liteshort

To run Liteshort, use the following command.

liteshort -p 8080

This starts the Liteshort server on port 8080.

To verify whether Liteshort is running, you can navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8080 on your web browser. If you see the Liteshort homepage, the installation was successful.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have gone through the steps required to install Liteshort on Alpine Linux Latest. Liteshort is now ready to be customized and used as a URL shortener service.