Tutorial: How to Install EtherCalc on FreeBSD Latest

EtherCalc is a web-based spreadsheet software that allows multiple users to work on the same sheet simultaneously in real-time. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing EtherCalc on FreeBSD latest.

Requirements

  • FreeBSD server running on the latest version.
  • Root access or user with superuser privileges.

Step 1: Install Node.js

The first step is to install Node.js on your FreeBSD server. Node.js is required by EtherCalc to run. Below is the command to install Node.js on FreeBSD:

sudo pkg install node14

Step 2: Install EtherCalc

After installing Node.js, we can proceed to install EtherCalc. Below are the steps to install EtherCalc:

  1. Download the EtherCalc source code from its official website using the curl command.
sudo curl -L https://github.com/audreyt/ethercalc/archive/master.tar.gz | tar zxvf -
  1. Rename the extracted folder to EtherCalc to ease the process.
sudo mv ethercalc-master ethercalc
  1. Change the directory to ethercalc and install the required dependencies.
cd ethercalc
sudo npm install
  1. Start EtherCalc using Node.js.
sudo node bin/ethercalc.js
  1. EtherCalc web interface runs on port 8000 by default. To access it, open a web browser and navigate to http://<server-ip>:8000/.

Step 3: Configure EtherCalc

By default, EtherCalc runs on the local server only, which means it's not accessible from other devices outside the server. To make EtherCalc accessible from other devices, open the configuration file settings.json located in the ethercalc directory:

sudo nano settings.json

Change the value of host to 0.0.0.0 to make EtherCalc available to the public:

"host": "0.0.0.0",

Save and close the file.

Conclusion

That's it, you have successfully installed EtherCalc on FreeBSD latest. You can now access EtherCalc from any device with a web browser using the server IP address. With EtherCalc, collaboration on spreadsheet data becomes easy and efficient.