Installing Bar Assistant on OpenBSD

Bar Assistant is a command-line tool for monitoring system resources such as CPU, RAM and network usage. This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing and using Bar Assistant on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before getting started, please ensure that you have the following:

• A computer running OpenBSD
• An internet connection

Step 1: Install Required Packages

To install Bar Assistant, we need to install a few packages. To do so, we can use the OpenBSD package management tool called pkg_add.

Run the following command to install the required packages:

sudo pkg_add go curl git

This command will install go, curl and git packages.

Step 2: Clone the Bar Assistant Repository

To clone the Bar Assistant repository, run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/karlomikus/bar-assistant.git

This will download the Bar Assistant source code to your computer.

Step 3: Install Bar Assistant

After cloning the repository, navigate to the bar-assistant directory by running:

cd bar-assistant

Now, we can compile and install Bar Assistant by running the following command:

sudo make install

This will compile the code and install the Bar Assistant binary at /usr/local/bin/bar-assistant.

Step 4: Run Bar Assistant

Now that Bar Assistant is installed, you can run it by typing the following command:

bar-assistant

This will start a bar that displays system resources. You can customize the bar by editing the config.toml file located in the ~/.config/bar-assistant directory.

Congratulations! You've successfully installed Bar Assistant on OpenBSD.