I’m interested in running Lemmy on an ARM64 host, mostly just for fun and because it’s possible.

I’ve tried a couple of things without getting it right yet:

Building from scratch on Ubuntu 20.04 This went quite well but I was unable to get pict-rs working, so there was no image hosting. I followed this guide: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/from_scratch.html I had to build imagemagick to get the ARM64 binary, however pict-rs did not run. Is it correct that it’s included with the lemmy-server binary or am I understanding how it works wrong?

Using Docker images I was able to get Lemmy up and running using 0.17.3 ARM64 docker images (unfortunately 0.17.4 images don’t exist yet). I set up an nginx reverse proxy on the host and was able to access the instance OK, however there was no connectivity between my instance and external sites. Looking in the logs I saw timeout errors:

lemmy_1     | LemmyError { message: None, inner: Request error: error sending request for url (https://kbin.social/u/Emptiness): operation timed out
lemmy_1     | 
lemmy_1     | Caused by:
lemmy_1     |     0: error sending request for url (https://kbin.social/u/Emptiness): operation timed out

So I was wondering if anybody had a guide out there to hosting Lemmy (preferably 0.17.4) on an ARM64 host, either by building it from scratch or by using Docker images. Or any other method really.

  • falcon15500@lemmy.nine-hells.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I built my own arm64 v0.17.4 docker image. It’s available on docker hub:

    mpatton/lemmy:0.17.4-linux-arm

    mpatton/lemmy-ui:0.17.4-linux-arm

    What are you using as your reverse proxy?

    • HorseFD@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thanks, I’ll check that out if my from-scratch attempt fails. I’m using nginx as a reverse proxy.

  • Jattatak@lemmy.bulwarkob.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The default docker-compose.yml from the guide has the docker lemmy network set as internal. You need to make it not an Internal network.

    Source: Did the same thing with the same problem, on Oracle ARM64 VPS.