Setup: Provide tar.gz, deb and rpm installation packages

[lastzero]

As a user who does not want to use Docker, I would like to have tar.gz, deb and rpm packages so that I can more easily install PhotoPrism on Ubuntu/Debian and Red Hat compatible Linux distributions.

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As an alternative to our Docker images, you can now use the tar.gz archives available at dl.photoprism.app/pkg/linux/ to install PhotoPrism on compatible Linux distributions without building it from source:

• https://dl.photoprism.app/pkg/linux/amd64.tar.gz
• https://dl.photoprism.app/pkg/linux/arm64.tar.gz

Since these packages need to be set up manually and do not include the system dependencies required to make use of all the features, we recommend that only advanced users choose this installation method.

Also note that the minimum required glibc version is 2.35, so for example Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian Bookworm will work with these binaries, but older Linux distributions may not be compatible.

Usage

You can download and install PhotoPrism in /opt/photoprism by running the following commands:

sudo mkdir -p /opt/photoprism
cd /opt/photoprism
wget -c https://dl.photoprism.app/pkg/linux/amd64.tar.gz -O - | sudo tar -xz
sudo ln -sf /opt/photoprism/bin/photoprism /usr/local/bin/photoprism
photoprism --version

If your server has an ARM-based CPU, make sure to install arm64.tar.gz instead of amd64.tar.gz when using the commands above. Both are linked to the latest available build.

Documentation

• https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/blob/develop/setup/pkg/linux/README.md
• https://dl.photoprism.app/pkg/linux/README.html

[lastzero]

We now also have .deb and .rpm packages available for testing on our download server at https://dl.photoprism.app/pkg/linux/:

If we receive no problem reports, then I'll assume that these are working for everyone to install PhotoPrism in /opt/photoprism and add a symlink for the photoprism command binary from/usr/local/bin/photoprism - so basically what the commands in our tar.gz installation guide do when you run them:

• https://dl.photoprism.app/pkg/linux/README.html

Just like with our tar.gz packages, the minimum required glibc version is 2.35, so for example Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian Bookworm will work with these binaries, but older Linux distributions may not be compatible.