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Etherpad#

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Etherpad is a highly customizable open source online editor providing collaborative editing in really real-time.

Installing Etherpad on Ubuntu 24.04#

Warning

I got partway through this process and then got pulled onto something else.

TODO: Actually finish installing Etherpad, and get it up and running. Look into running it via Docker?

Make an A record pointing to the server IP address.

Install Node.js#

From NodeSource Installation Instructions (DEB) 

sudo apt-get install -y curl
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x -o nodesource_setup.sh
sudo -E bash nodesource_setup.sh
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
node -v

Make a dedicated Etherpad user#

From How To Install the Etherpad Collaborative Web Editor on Ubuntu 20.04 

sudo adduser --system --group --home /opt/etherpad etherpad
passwd etherpad
usermod -aG sudo etherpad
sudo -u etherpad bash
cd /opt/etherpad