How to Install MiAOU on Linux Mint Latest?

MiAOU (Mattermost Install As One) is an open-source, self-hosted communication platform that offers chat, file sharing, and video conferencing features for teams and organizations. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install MiAOU on Linux Mint latest.

Prerequisites

Before starting, you need to ensure that the following prerequisites are met:

A Linux Mint latest server or computer
A non-root user with sudo privileges
Access to the command line terminal

Step 1: Install Required Packages

Before installing MiAOU, we need to ensure that all the necessary packages are installed on our system. Run the following commands in your terminal to install the required packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install git curl unzip wget
sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev python3-dev

Step 2: Install Docker

MiAOU runs on Docker, which is a containerization platform. Therefore, we need to install and configure it on our system. Perform the following steps:

Install Docker-CE

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install \
    apt-transport-https \
    ca-certificates \
    curl \
    gnupg \
    lsb-release

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg

echo \
  "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu \
  $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

Add Your User To The Docker Group

By default, Docker runs with root privileges, and for security reasons, we should not run Docker with root privileges. Instead, we will add our user to the Docker group to allow access to Docker without root privileges.

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Log out and log back in to activate the group change.

Step 3: Clone the MiAOU Repository

git clone https://github.com/Canop/miaou.git

Step 4: Configure MiAOU

Navigate to the cloned repository directory and edit the config.md file.

cd miaou
cp config-example.md config.md
nano config.md

Update the configuration file as per your requirements.

Step 5: Build and Run the Docker Containers

docker-compose build && docker-compose up -d

Wait for some time until the build process completes. Once the build is finished, Docker will run two containers, one for the MiAOU server and the other for the Postgres database.

Step 6: Access MiAOU

Open your web browser and go to http://localhost:8080. You will be redirected to the login page. Enter your credentials to access the platform.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have illustrated how to install MiAOU on Linux Mint latest. After following the steps outlined, you should now have a functioning MiAOU instance up and running on your system.