How to Install Bar Assistant on FreeBSD Latest

Bar Assistant is an open source tool that displays a customized status bar on your desktop. In this tutorial, we will guide you through how to install Bar Assistant on FreeBSD Latest.

Prerequisite

  • A FreeBSD Latest installed
  • A user account with sudo privileges

Step 1: Update the package database

First, we need to update the package database to get the latest version available in the FreeBSD repository. Open the terminal and enter the following command:

sudo pkg update

Step 2: Install dependencies

Before installing Bar Assistant, we need to install its dependencies. To install the dependencies, run:

sudo pkg install python3 py37-requests py37-netifaces py37-psutil

Step 3: Clone Bar Assistant repository

Next, clone the Bar Assistant repository from Github. To do so, execute the following command:

git clone https://github.com/karlomikus/bar-assistant.git

This command will create a directory called bar-assistant in your current working directory.

Step 4: Configure Bar Assistant

After cloning the repository, we need to configure Bar Assistant. Navigate to the bar-assistant directory using the following command:

cd bar-assistant

Then, copy the config.yaml.dist file to config.yaml using the following command:

cp config.yaml.dist config.yaml

Next, edit the config.yaml file using your preferred text editor:

nano config.yaml

Here, you can customize the bar's appearance, modules to be displayed, and other settings as per your requirement.

Step 5: Launch Bar Assistant

Finally, execute Bar Assistant using the following command:

./bar_assistant

If everything goes well, you should see the Bar Assistant status bar appear on your desktop. Congratulations, you have successfully installed and configured Bar Assistant on your FreeBSD Latest system.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we guided you through the process of installing Bar Assistant on your FreeBSD Latest system. We hope that this tutorial helped you with the installation process. If you have any queries, please let us know in the comments below.