How to Install Mealie on MXLinux Latest

Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner. In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps of installing Mealie on MXLinux Latest.

Prerequisites

  • MXLinux Latest installed on your computer
  • A terminal application

Steps

  1. Open a terminal on MXLinux by pressing CTRL+ALT+T or searching for "terminal" in the application menu.

  2. Install Python 3 and pip by running the following command:

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip
  1. Clone the Mealie repository from GitHub using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/hay-kot/mealie.git
  1. Navigate to the Mealie directory using the following command:
cd mealie/
  1. Install the required Python packages using the requirements.txt file:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  1. Rename config.example.yml to config.yml:
mv config.example.yml config.yml
  1. Edit the config.yml file by entering your MySQL or SQLite database information. To set up a SQLite database, use the following settings:
DATABASE_URL: "sqlite:///mealie.sqlite3"
DATABASE_DRIVER: "sqlite"
  1. Create the Mealie database and run migrations:
python3 manage.py makemigrations
python3 manage.py migrate
  1. Create a superuser account:
python3 manage.py createsuperuser
  1. Start the Mealie server:
python3 manage.py runserver
  1. Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000 to begin using Mealie.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Mealie on MXLinux Latest. You can now start adding recipes and planning meals using the application.