Install Trilium Notes on NetBSD

Introduction

This tutorial explains how to install Trilium Notes on NetBSD. Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large, interconnected notes using a rich-text editor. This application is available on GitHub at https://github.com/zadam/trilium.

Prerequisites

Before installing Trilium Notes on NetBSD, you must ensure that:

  • You have a NetBSD system set up with a user account that has root access
  • You have installed the NetBSD package manager, pkgin, and it is up-to-date

Procedure

  1. Open a terminal window on your NetBSD system

  2. Update the packages database:

sudo pkgin update
  1. Install the dependencies required for running Trilium Notes:
sudo pkgin install nodejs npm xorg
  1. Clone the Trilium Notes repository from GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/zadam/trilium.git
  1. Navigate to the cloned directory:
cd trilium
  1. Install the required node modules:
npm install
  1. Build the application with:
npm run build
  1. Start the application with:
npm run start
  1. If you want to run Trilium Notes at startup, you can create a systemd service unit file as follows:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/trilium.service
  1. Add the following lines to the file:
[Unit]
Description=Trilium Notes Application
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/pkg/bin/npm run start
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/trilium
Restart=always
User=user
Group=user

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Replace /path/to/trilium with the path to the cloned trilium repository, and replace user with your NetBSD username.

  1. Enable and start the service:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable trilium
sudo systemctl start trilium

Conclusion

You have successfully installed Trilium Notes on NetBSD. You can access the application by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8080.