How to Install Wakapi on Void Linux

Wakapi is a server that collects statistics for WakaTime. In this tutorial, we will explain how to install Wakapi on your Void Linux machine.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, you need to have some prerequisites installed on your system. You can install them by running the following command:

sudo xbps-install -S git nodejs npm

This installs Git, Node.js, and Npm on your system.

Step 1: Clone the Repository

First, we need to clone the repository from GitHub. To do this, run the following command:

git clone https://github.com/muety/wakapi.git

This command will create a folder named wakapi in your current working directory.

Step 2: Install Dependencies

To install the dependencies required by Wakapi, we need to navigate into the wakapi directory and run the following command:

cd wakapi
npm install

The npm install command will download and install all the dependencies required by Wakapi.

Step 3: Configure Wakapi

Next, we need to configure Wakapi to work with our WakaTime account. To do this, we need to edit the config.example.json file and save it as config.json.

cp config.example.json config.json
nano config.json

Inside the config.json file, we need to replace the placeholders with our WakaTime API key and other information.

{
    "apiKey": "<WAKATIME_API_KEY>",
    "mongoUrl": "mongodb://localhost:27017/wakapi",
    "debug": false,
    "forbidUserRegistration": false,
    "blocklist": []
}

Step 4: Start Wakapi

Finally, we can start Wakapi by running the following command:

npm start

This will start the Wakapi server, and it will be available at http://localhost:3000/.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Wakapi on your Void Linux machine.