Installing Wastebin on NixOS Latest

Wastebin is a web application for creating and sharing paste text. Here's how to install Wastebin on NixOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before installing Wastebin on NixOS Latest, you'll need to make sure you have the following installed:

• Git
• Nix package manager
• NixOS Latest

You can install each of these using the following commands:

# Install Git
sudo apt install git

# Install Nix package manager
curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

# Install NixOS Latest
sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

Install Wastebin

Once you have the prerequisites installed, you can clone the Wastebin repository and build the application.

# Clone Wastebin repository
git clone https://github.com/matze/wastebin.git

# Change directory to the Wastebin repository
cd wastebin

# Use Nix to build Wastebin
nix-build

Once the installation is complete, you'll be able to run Wastebin by running the following command:

./result/bin/wastebin

This will start the Wastebin server, which will be available at localhost:3000 by default.

Configure Wastebin

By default, Wastebin will store the pastes in a SQLite database in the data directory. You can configure the database by modifying the config.yaml file. For example, if you want to use a PostgreSQL database, you can add the following to the config.yaml file:

database:
  type: postgresql
  host: localhost
  name: wastebin
  user: wastebin
  password: secret

Once you've made your changes to the config.yaml file, you can rebuild Wastebin and start the server again.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You now have Wastebin installed and running on NixOS Latest. You can create and share pastes by visiting localhost:3000 in your web browser. Happy pasting!