How to install Motor Admin on Arch Linux

Motor Admin is a powerful tool for managing MongoDB databases, collections, and documents. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Motor Admin on Arch Linux.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:

  • A running Arch Linux installation.
  • A user account with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Install Node.js and Yarn

Motor Admin is built with Node.js and uses Yarn as a package manager. Therefore, we need to install them first.

To install Node.js, run the following command:

sudo pacman -S nodejs

To install Yarn, run the following command:

sudo pacman -S yarn

Step 2: Install Motor Admin

Once we have installed the prerequisites, we can now install Motor Admin. Here are the steps to follow:

  1. Download the latest release of Motor Admin from the official website:
wget https://github.com/motoradmin/motoradmin/releases/download/v2.3.0/motoradmin-2.3.0.tgz
  1. Extract the downloaded archive:
tar -xvzf motoradmin-2.3.0.tgz
  1. Navigate to the extracted directory:
cd motoradmin-2.3.0
  1. Install the dependencies:
yarn install
  1. Build the project:
yarn build
  1. Start the server:
yarn start

This will start the Motor Admin server, and it should be accessible at http://localhost:3000.

Step 3: Configure Motor Admin

By default, Motor Admin listens on port 3000 and uses the MongoDB connection string mongodb://localhost:27017. If you want to change these settings, you can edit the config.js file located in the src directory.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Motor Admin on Arch Linux. You can now start using this powerful tool to manage your MongoDB databases, collections, and documents.