How to Install Inlets on Elementary OS

Inlets is an open-source tool to expose local endpoints to the internet. In this tutorial, we will walk through the process of installing Inlets on the latest version of Elementary OS.

Prerequisites

Before beginning with the installation process, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:

• A system running the latest version of Elementary OS
• Administrative access to the system
• A terminal emulator

Step 1: Download the Inlets binary

To install Inlets on Elementary OS, you'll first need to download the Inlets binary.

You can download the Inlets binary using the following command in the terminal:

wget https://github.com/inlets/inlets/releases/download/2.7.0/inlets-pro-linux-amd64.tgz

After the binary gets downloaded, you need to extract it.

Use the following command to extract the Inlets binary:

tar -xvzf inlets-pro-linux-amd64.tgz

Step 2: Add Inlets to the Path

Once the Inlets binary is extracted, add it to the system path.

You can do this by moving the binary to /usr/local/bin using the following command:

sudo mv inlets-pro /usr/local/bin/inlets

Step 3: Verify the installation

After adding the Inlets binary to the path, verify the installation using the following command:

inlets version

If Inlets is installed correctly, you should see the version information.

Step 4: Start Inlets

Now that Inlets is installed, you can start it using the following command:

inlets server --auto-tls true

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have installed Inlets on your Elementary OS system. You can now start using Inlets to expose local endpoints to the internet.