How to install Trilium Notes on FreeBSD

Trilium Notes is an open-source hierarchical note-taking application available on various platforms, including FreeBSD. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Trilium Notes on FreeBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, there are a few prerequisites that you need to have in place:

  • A FreeBSD Latest installation
  • A user account with sudo access
  • A working internet connection

Install Dependencies

To run Trilium Notes on FreeBSD, you need to install the following dependencies:

sudo pkg install qt5-webengine qt5-websockets

Download and Install Trilium Notes

Follow these steps to download and install Trilium Notes on your FreeBSD system:

  1. Open your terminal and switch to your home directory using the command:
cd ~
  1. Download the Trilium Notes source code from GitHub using the git command:
git clone https://github.com/zadam/trilium.git
  1. Navigate to the trilium directory that contains the source code using the command:
cd trilium
  1. Build the application using the npm command:
npm install && npm run build:prod
  1. Start the Trilium Notes application using the following command:
npm start

If everything goes well, Trilium Notes should launch on your FreeBSD system. Congratulations, you have successfully installed Trilium Notes on FreeBSD!

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Trilium Notes on a FreeBSD Latest system. We hope that this guide was useful to you and that you can start using Trilium Notes to organize your notes and thoughts.