Faircamp

Faircamp on Linux

Get started on any Linux distro

Tutorial Overview

This tutorial will guide you through installing faircamp, generating your first faircamp site, customizing it further through the use of manifests, and finally show you one (of many) ways to publish your site online.

Note that there also other great tutorials around, such as Meljoann's faircamp introduction (for all platforms), LinuxCreative's video guide (for Linux) and Johann Bourquenez's french faircamp tutorial (for all platforms). You can also mix and match these, each has its own style and covers different aspects more thorougly, but the approach is always the same and thus fully compatible.

Install faircamp

Find the right way of installation for your distro on the installation page in the manual, then continue with the next step below.

It actually works the same everywhere!

Asides the installation and a few gotchas, faircamp actually works 100% the same on all platforms! For this reason, producing screencasts and writing out the instructions again for each and every platform does not add much, while it would however take a lot of time that could otherwise be spent on development and new features! Consequently for now - and I hope you agree with the reasoning for this choice! :) - the linux tutorial merely points out the two key differences on Linux, and then takes you to the Windows tutorial for following all steps (which work just the same on Linux).

The only two differences worth noting:

  1. Instead of the Windows File Explorer, Command Prompt and Notepad, you'll be using your native Linux counterparts. On GNOME these will usually be Files/Nautilus, the GNOME terminal and gedit. On KDE these will usually be the Dolphin File Manager, Konsole and Kate. You can use any comparable alternatives of course.
  2. In the (Windows) tutorial you will see commands like faircamp.exe --preview or faircamp.exe --preview --theming-widget. On Linux, remove/omit the .exe in every command, so that your commands look like this instead: faircamp --preview or faircamp --preview --theming-widget
And that's all! With these hints in mind follow along with the Windows Tutorial and you'll be done in no time!