Non docker install?

[ekzhang]

Non docker install?

[ekzhang]

Unfortunately we only officially distribute the application as a container. You don't have to run it with Docker though; any OCI-compliant runtime will do the trick. And the container is only a couple MB.

We could distribute binaries as well, but they would have to keep track of the associated static HTML files next to the binary, which is kind of annoying. There's also the problem that building multi-platform binaries is kind of messy and requires cross-compilation to automate.

[ithakaa]

As a non programmer/ developer I would need a short readme to get it installed without docker

Is this something you can provide?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to docker, it's just Im invested in proxmox LCXs so makes no sense to spin up an entire VM to host docker to then host rustpad.

I can quickly spin up a LXC in 5 seconds, with a little readme should be able to install rustpad and whatever else I'd like In the LXC like tailscale so I can share rustpad with anyone I choose

[ekzhang]

If you're on Linux, then the easiest way to get the files for Rustpad would be to just extract them from the Docker image. There are instructions for building from source in the README (and there's obviously the Dockerfile as well, which is pretty straightforward), but that would likely take longer for you.

You can do something like this StackOverflow answer.

id=$(docker create ekzhang/rustpad)
docker cp $id:/ rustpad
docker rm -v $id

Then in the rustpad/ folder you'll have the rustpad-server binary (statically linked to musl libc) and associated static files folder dist. You can ignore the rest of the files; they're procfs / sys and other Linux junk.

[ekzhang]

An alternative set of commands that doesn't depend on a running Docker daemon (uses OCI images directly instead) and doesn't generate the procfs junk that docker cp does:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install skopeo umoci

skopeo copy docker://ekzhang/rustpad oci:rustpad-layers:latest
mkdir rustpad && umoci raw unpack --rootless --image rustpad-layers:latest rustpad
rm -rf rustpad-layers

This generates:

$ ls -l rustpad
total 13688
drwxr-xr-x 3 ubuntu ubuntu     4096 Feb 19 15:55 dist
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ubuntu ubuntu 14010192 Feb 19 16:07 rustpad-server

[ithakaa]

skopeo is not found in the ubuntu 20.04 repo

[ekzhang]

It's in Ubuntu 22.04. You can find installation instructions on the skopeo repository. If you don't want to use skopeo, you can use any other container management tool.

Unfortunately I'm not able to provide technical support for all installation issues, please keep the issues tracker for bugs!