DietPi-Software | File Browser

[msongz]

Creating a software request

Formal software information

• Software title | filebrowser
• Short description | Web File Browser which can be used as a middleware or standalone app
• Official URL (if available) | https://filebrowser.xyz/
• GitHub URL (if available) | https://github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser
• (Official) install documentation |
  https://docs.filebrowser.xyz/installation

Are there similar/alternative software titles available with DietPi-Software?

• nextcloud
• owncloud

What makes your requested software better than the above solutions, if available?

• lightweight
• easy to use

How can DietPi make the installation easier or compatible, than following the install instructions or do APT installation, if available?

• ...

Can you provide the installation steps that you would suggest DietPi-Software to do?

1. just follow offical steps

Are you willing to help maintaining the software installation, e.g. in case of needed setup changes due to updates etc.? This is not needed, but could speed up our decision to implement it, as man power is always a topic 😉.

• ...

[MichaIng]

@msongz
Thanks for your request.

This is even closer to Syncthing than to ownCloud/Nextcloud. A very simple web based file access implementation

Related forum request: https://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=4008

[CouldBeThis]

I would like to motivate this further as I don't think there is anything currently filling this use case.

The project is a model of restrained development. Does one thing perfectly with just a few essential customizations, and nothing else.

[MichaIng]

Detailed setup instructions: https://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=36827#p36827

[Joulinar]

@MichaIng
If you like, I could have a look on implementing this for 7.6

[MichaIng]

Would be awesome, sounds pretty doable and a great light-end file sharing/browser implementation that was still missing. +1 for systemd unit you suggested. Then probably an own service user, but with dietpi as primary group and UMask=002 so that other members of the dietpi group have full access to those files? Could be handy when using it for media stuff, an NFS/Samba drive included etc.

[Joulinar]

Ok good. Will look into this once 7.5 has been released.

[Joulinar]

@MichaIng
Question: do you like to use filebrowser install script or should we adapt the steps accordingly.

Filebrowser install script basically detects os + arch and is going to create GitHub download URL

https://github.com/filebrowser/get/blob/0581887ba29c534a1d661b0df4d2001b779cde79/get.sh#L109-L111

Similar we do on other installs 😄

EDIT
This should do it
curl -fsSL 'https://api.github.com/repos/filebrowser/filebrowser/releases/latest' | mawk -F\" '/"browser_download_url": .*\/linux\-arm64\-filebrowser\.tar\.gz"/{print $4}'

just need to replace arm64 and make it a variable

[MichaIng]

Yes exactly, we can adopt the steps we do in many other cases and skip the overhead of the installer, detecting the OS etc. You should also find the cases where we define the arch= variable based on $G_HW_ARCH to find the correct URL.

[Joulinar]

yep. I'm just waiting on 7.5 release and the initial PR for 7.6 😉