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💻 Local

LibrePhotos can be installed locally on Debian-based operating systems with systemd.

Notes​

We currently only support nginx. If you want something custom, adapt the script to your liking. We do not support a remote PostgreSQL server yet.

Compatibility​

Architecture: amd64

  • Ubuntu 20.04.x LTS (server)
  • Ubuntu 21.04 (desktop)
  • Debian

Pre-Installation​

Install git:

sudo apt install git -y

Installation​

Debian like distribution​

Execute the following commands as root. Edit the beginning of the script, and execute. This will create system user 'librephotos', creates directories, installs necessary software, creates database and automatically writes some variables to librephotos-backend.env file.

sudo su
cd
git clone https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos-linux.git
cd librephotos-linux
nano install-librephotos.sh
./install-librephotos.sh

After changing the photos directory, you must edit either /etc/nginx/nginx.conf or /etc/nginx/sites-available/librephotos. There are four places where you have to update the location.

nano /etc/librephotos/librephotos-backend.env

Additional information​

Installed systemd services:

librephotos-image-similarity.service
librephotos-worker.service
librephotos-backend
librephotos-frontend

librephotos-cli​

As root, you can use

librephotos-cli build_similarity_index
librephotos-cli clear_cache

Video are not playing​

This is a permissions issue. The subdirectories need others read and execute permissions, and the video files need others read permissions. This is true even if everything is owned by librephotos:librephotos

Next Steps​

Next, take a look at the first steps after setup.