How to Install This Week in Past on Debian Latest

This Week in Past is an open-source CLI tool that fetches historical events that happened on this week from Wikipedia. In this tutorial, we'll discuss how to install This Week in Past on Debian Latest.

Prerequisites

• A Debian latest machine
• A terminal with sudo access
• Git & Node.js installed

Step 1: Clone the This Week in Past repository

Firstly, open the terminal on your Debian machine and clone the This Week in Past repository from Github with the following command:

git clone https://github.com/RouHim/this-week-in-past.git

Step 2: Install Node.js packages

Now, navigate to the cloned "this-week-in-past" directory and install the required Node.js packages using NPM:

cd this-week-in-past
sudo npm install

Step 3: Test the installation

After installing the packages successfully, run the following command to verify that the installation is done correctly and to check the top historical events that happened on the current week:

npm start

If everything is okay, you should see a list of historical events in the terminal.

Step 4: Create a shortcut command for This Week in Past

Lastly, create a shortcut command for This Week in Past by updating your Linux profile file e.g., .bashrc or .zshrc. You can modify it with the text editor you wish, for example:

nano ~/.bashrc

And then add the following new line at the end of the file:

alias this-week-in-past="cd ~/this-week-in-past && npm start"

After that, save the changes and execute the following command to make it effective in the current terminal:

source ~/.bashrc

Conclusion

Now you have successfully installed the This Week in Past tool on your Debian latest machine. You can use the shortcut command "this-week-in-past" to access the top historical events that happened on the current week.