LibrePhotos installation script for Linux

Compatibility

Debian 11
Ubuntu 20.04

Pre-Installation

requirement

postgresql
redis

Postgresql creation database script

Open sql console

su - postgres -c /usr/bin/psql

Execute the bellow script after change values like password and user

CREATE USER librephotos WITH PASSWORD 'password';
CREATE DATABASE "librephotos" WITH OWNER "librephotos";
GRANT ALL privileges ON DATABASE librephotos TO librephotos;
quit

Installation

Debian like distribution

Execute following commande as root

cd /tmp/
git clone https://github.com/LibrePhotos/librephotos-linux.git
cd librephotos-linux
./install-librephotos.sh

Other way can be use download archive

wget https://github.com/librephotos/librephotos-linux/archive/main.zip -O /tmp/main.zip
unzip -d /tmp/ /tmp/main.zip
cd /tmp/librephotos-linux-main/
./install-librephotos.sh

Edit /etc/librephotos/librephotos-backend

SECRET_KEY
Postgresql information
redis information

nano /etc/librephotos/librephotos-backend

Create or update database

/usr/lib/librephotos/bin/librephotos-upgrade

Create admin user as root with the following commande

/usr/lib/librephotos/bin/librephotos-createadmin <user> <email> [<paswword>]

reboot or start services

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

Other distribution

not working yet

additional information

librephotos-cli

As root you can use

librephotos-cli build_similarity_index
librephotos-cli clear_cache
librephotos-cli scan

Samba mount point sample

Install cifs-utils :

apt install cifs-utils

On /etc/fstab add the following line :

//data.lan.lgy.fr/ftcl/photos/ /var/lib/librephotos/data/photos cifs uid=librephotos,gid=librephotos,credentials=/etc/samba/smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,sec=ntlmssp,noacl 0 0

create file /etc/samba/smbcredentials with bellow connexion informations

username=thomas
password=mypassword
domain=my.domain.com

Webdav mount point sample

Install davfs2 :

apt install davfs2