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Photon for Lemmy

A client for the fediverse designed to be intuitive, fast, and beautiful.

Share your themes, ask questions, report bugs, or check on the latest updates here!

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submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The readme talks about docker. I’m not a docker user. I did a git clone when I was on a decent connection. ATM I’m not on a decent connection. The releases page lacks file sizes. And MS Github conceals the size:

curl -LI 'https://github.com/Xyphyn/photon/archive/refs/tags/v1.31.2-fix.1.tar.gz' | grep -i 'content-length'

output:

content-length: 0

So instead of fetching the tarball of unknown size, I need to know how to build either the app or the tarball from the cloned repo. Is that documented anywhere?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

So docker is just a wrapper to provide the execution environment for photon in this case. You’ll either have to use docker as it’s really nothing more than installing the docker engine and that’s it, you just run commands provided by the photon dev.

If you really don’t want to use docker for whatever reason, you’ll have to reverse engineer the actual code stack within the Dockerfile in the project that is used to build the image you’d otherwise just run. Again this is more more involved and the whole reason to use something like docker in the first place.