How to Install Tiny Tiny IRC on Linux Mint Latest

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing Tiny Tiny IRC on Linux Mint Latest. Tiny Tiny IRC is an open-source collaborative IRC client and is free to use.

Before proceeding with the installation, make sure that your system is up-to-date:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Step 1: Install Dependencies

To run Tiny Tiny IRC successfully, we need to install some dependencies, which are as follows:

Basic Dependencies

sudo apt install curl wget git

PHP Dependencies

sudo apt install php php-cli php-curl php-intl php-mbstring php-xml php-zip

Node.js Dependencies

sudo apt install nodejs npm

Step 2: Install Composer

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP programming language which can resolve dependencies of different packages, libraries, and modules required in the project.

To install Composer, first, we need to download and install it:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Move the downloaded composer.phar file to the /usr/local/bin directory to make it executable all around the system:

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

To confirm the installation, run the following command:

composer --version

Step 3: Download and Install Tiny Tiny IRC

To download and install Tiny Tiny IRC, we need to follow the below steps:

Step 3-1: Clone the Repository from Github

First of all, we need to clone the Tiny Tiny IRC repository into our system.

git clone https://github.com/levito/tt-irc.git

Step 3-2: Install Dependencies

After cloning the repository, navigate to the directory and install the dependencies by running the below command:

composer install

Step 3-3: Node.js and npm

Tiny Tiny IRC also requires Node.js and npm to build the CSS files required for the application. To install Node.js and npm, run the below command:

sudo apt install nodejs npm

After installing Node.js and npm, navigate to the cloned directory and install the required packages by running:

npm install

Step 3-4: Building the CSS Files

To build the CSS files, run the below command:

npm run build

Step 3-5: Setting up Database

Create the database and the user for the application using the following command:

mysql -u root -p

CREATE DATABASE tt-irc;

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON tt-irc.* TO 'tt-irc'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Step 3-6: Configuration

Copy the .env.example file to .env:

cp .env.example .env

Edit the following lines of .env file as per your MySQL settings.

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=tt-irc
DB_USERNAME=tt-irc
DB_PASSWORD=password

Step 3-7: Run the Migrations

Run the following command to migrate the database tables:

php artisan migrate

Step 3-8: Start the Server

Finally, start the server and access it via http://localhost:8080:

php artisan serve --port 8080

The server runs on port 8080 as localhost. You can access the Tiny Tiny IRC application via any browser.

This concludes our tutorial on how to install Tiny Tiny IRC on Linux Mint Latest. We hope this tutorial was helpful.