Run Monika in Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi is a good hardware to run Monika. For Raspbian OS user, you need to install NodeJS >= 14 manually since Raspbian package manager (apt) only install for NodeJS 8.

Install Node 14 in Raspbian

Monika needs NodeJS >= 14 and npm ~= 6 to run.To install NodeJS 14 in Raspberry Pi (Raspbian OS), you need to get CPU architecture by running uname:

 uname -a

Next, download NodeJS package that matches your architecture. For example, if your architecture is arm v7:

1 # Other architectures are available at https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.17.3
2 wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v14.17.3/node-v14.17.3-linux-armv7l.tar.xz

Un-tar the file:

 tar xf node-v14.17.3-linux-armv7l.tar.xz

And install NodeJS globally:

 sudo cp -R node-v14.17.3-linux-armv7l/* /usr/local/

Check NodeJS and NPM version using this command:

1 node -v
2 npm -v

Install and Run Monika in Raspbian

For now, the way to install Monika in Raspbian is to install from source code.

There are two ways to get Monika in Raspbian, from archive file and via Git.

• Download Monika source code archive

1 cd ~
2 mkdir monika-src
3 cd monika-src
4 # Download latest tarball and directly extract it to current directory
5 wget -c `wget -S -O - https://api.github.com/repos/hyperjumptech/monika/releases/latest | grep -o -E "https://(.*)tarball(.*)/([^\"]+)"` -O - | tar -xz --strip-components=1

• Get Monika from our Git repository

1 cd ~
2 git clone --depth 1 --branch `git -c 'versionsort.suffix=-' ls-remote --exit-code --refs --sort='version:refname' --tags https://github.com/hyperjumptech/monika.git '*.*.*' | tail -1 | cut -d'/' -f 3` https://github.com/hyperjumptech/monika.git
3 cd monika/

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• Download Monika dependencies and prepack

 npm install && npm run prepack

Run Monika

To run Monika, use this command

 ./bin/run -c monika.example.yml