How to Install Paperless-ngx on Manjaro

Paperless-ngx is a powerful document management system that allows users to organize, search, and manage digital documents. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Paperless-ngx on your Manjaro machine.

Prerequisites

A Manjaro instance with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Install Required Dependencies

Before we begin the installation of Paperless-ngx, we need to make sure we have all the required dependencies installed.

Open the terminal window and run the following command:

sudo pacman -S python python-pip python-virtualenv python-wheel python-setuptools python-pyparsing python-pygments python-pyopenssl python-pytest python-pylint python-reportlab python-toml python-tz python-magic libjpeg-turbo libjpeg-turbo-devel libtiff libtiff-devel

Step 2: Install Paperless-ngx

Now that we have all the dependencies installed, let's proceed with the installation of Paperless-ngx.

Open the terminal window and create a virtual environment for Paperless-ngx:
```
virtualenv --python=python3 paperless
```
Activate the virtual environment:
```
source paperless/bin/activate
```
Install Paperless-ngx using pip:
```
pip install paperless-ng
```

Step 3: Configure Paperless-ngx

Once the installation is complete, we need to configure Paperless-ngx before we can start using it.

Create a configuration file:
```
nano ~/.paperless/settings.toml
```

Add the following configuration to the file:

[general]
DEBUG = False
SECRET_KEY = <insert_your_secret_key_here>

[documents]
MEDIA_ROOT = ~/paperless/media/

Save and close the file.

Step 4: Start Paperless-ngx

Now that we have everything set up, let's start Paperless-ngx.

Activate the virtual environment:
```
source paperless/bin/activate
```
Start Paperless-ngx:
```
paperless-ng start
```

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Paperless-ngx on your Manjaro machine. You can now start organizing and managing your digital documents.