Setting up Norg

Prerequisites

Install Borg or Restic as these do not get installed automatically.

You will also need to install Nim v2 and nimble

• FreeBSD - pkg install nimble
• Arch Linux - pacman -S nimble
• For other distros you may need to use the official choosenim Installer to get the latest version of nim installed.

Installation

Norg is listed on Nimble Directory so you can install norg using nimble

nimble install norg

or, if you'd rather not use the directory, you can install direct from our Codeberg Repo:

nimble install https://codeberg.org/pswilde/norgbackup

PATH variable

Once installed, norg will be installed in your $HOME/.nimble/bin/ directory. You should add this location to your $PATH variable so it can be found remains up-to-date when running nimble install norg again.

Portability

Norg is a single binary executable, so it can be copied wherever you need providing it has been compiled in the required system and architecture beforehand.
For example, I have multiple FreeBSD servers where I use Norg. I install the latest version on one of these servers, then just copy that binary to all others servers that need to make use of it.

Upgrading Norg

Norg can be upgraded easily via nimble:

# Update nimble directory cache
nimble update
# Upgrade Norg
nimble install norg

The latest version of Norg should then be installed in your $HOME/.nimble/bin/ directory.