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Running into trouble setting up lemmy via docker (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm following the steps outlined in the official documentation at https://join-lemmy.org.

When I run

docker-compose up -d

It returns the following error

failed to read dockerfile: open /var/lib/docker/tmp/buildkit-mount182554177/Dockerfile: no such file or directory

Here's a screenshot from my terminal. https://i.imgur.com/Y27cfXf.png

How do I correct this?

EDIT: I've been researching this the best I can for some time now. The most common suggestion is to make sure that the Dockerfile is spelled correctly in the docker-compose.yml. It is.

Am I supposed to be creating a Dockerfile and fill it with some information? Is this intentionally left unaddressed by the guide for docker install? Is there some prerequisite I'm not fulfilling that the guide doesn't address?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I am having the same issue. It looks like the docker guide is missing setting up the Docker file...

edit: ~~I appear to have figured this out. You need to download the Dockerfile from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/main/docker/Dockerfile and save it to $HOME/docker . This should be updated in the documentation...~~

its actually even easier than that. Just do git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git, cd into lemmy/docker, make the config changes you need, then run docker-compose up -d

looks like there is already a PR about this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3117

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks for your reply! I got the Dockerfile and I'm now getting these errors when building. Do you know what is happening? https://i.imgur.com/E3UHYt8.png