I’m trying to stand up a Lemmy instance, and for some reason I’m just not getting it. I’ve got a fair bit of experience in Linux and Docker. NPM is new to me, but doesn’t seem difficult.

I’ve looked over several walkthroughs but it seems like they all don’t quite work right. Does someone have a clear step-by-step that works, or could take the time to remote in and help me get this up?

I’m running on VMWare ESXi, and I’ve tried both Debian and Ubuntu to get the server up. Closest I got, the Docker containers would start but seem to be throwing errors internally and don’t connect to one another.

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I just set it up from a git checkout, and it was pretty involved – the build instructions are actually quite a bit better than usual for development software at this stage, but it’s still a complicated process with some changes vs. what’s in the instructions. If you’re open to that route, I can try to document what I did in more detail + send it along and give some help if you get stuck.

    • TerryMathews@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That would be great. I’m not opposed to building, I was actually just sitting here contemplating deep-sixing the whole docker arrangement and just building the services up. That’s what I learned back in the day, and to me it feels like Docker and having everything as separate images is just giving me an additional point of failure.

      • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Sure thing, I’ll put together some notes (or more likely some proposed revisions to the “how to build from source” that’s on join-lemmy.org) in the next few days I think

  • TerryMathews@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So I wanted to make a top-level post: I’ve got a set of example files, and instructions, that will work 100% of the time on Debian. What do you guys think would be the best way to share them? A post here and the files shared on Google Drive? GitHub? Definitely open to suggestions, but I don’t want anyone to struggle with it as hard as I have.