MacOS

Sorry that these instructions are so primitive, the main developer of OliveTin’s MacOS machine died :-( If you can help with instructions and screenshots that would be great.

There is a .tar.gz that you can download, extract. Link: OliveTin-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
Start a terminal and CD into the OliveTin directory.

Post installation

You will need to write a basic configuration file before OliveTin will startup.

Edit the basic config file at config.yaml with the following contents;

The most simple config.yaml file.

actions:
  - title: "Hello world!"
    shell: echo 'Hello World!'

Start OliveTin, preferably via a terminal. On Unix based systems (eg MacOS, BSD, Linux, etc) you can just run ./OliveTin. On Windows you would run OliveTin.exe in windows terminal.

You should be able to browse to http://yourserver:1337 (or similar) to get to the web interface.

If you see the OliveTin page popup in your browser, you are good to go! Here are some helpful next steps;

Create your first action
configuration section for a list of all configuration options.

Troubleshooting installations

If you are having problems, OliveTin will log it’s status on startup. Check the log messages in the terminal.

If you cannot understand the logs, or otherwise need help, see the support page.