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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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installation instructions needed (fedia.io)

submitted 3 months 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] 3 points 3 months ago

Photon is not an "app" that you "install", and that tarball is just the source code, equivalent to git cloneing the main repo. The docker image is for a prebuilt server.

Here's what thearch said on how to run the server yourself:

You'll need node.js and npm for the minimum node server.

Run npm install to fetch the dependencies.

Build the app with ADAPTER=node npm run build

There should be a new directory, build.

To run the app, do node build/index.js. You can set the documented environment variables, and use PORT= to change the port.