--- title: Installation description: published: true date: 2021-02-25T18:05:08.275Z tags: editor: markdown dateCreated: 2021-02-25T11:24:06.655Z --- # Installation To manually compile invidious you need at least 2GB of RAM. If you have less you can setup SWAP to have a combined amount of 2 GB or use Docker instead. After installation take a look at the [Post-install steps](#post-install-configuration). ## Automated installation [Invidious-Updater](https://github.com/tmiland/Invidious-Updater) is a self-contained script that can automatically install and update Invidious. ## Docker ### Build and start cluster ```bash $ docker-compose up ``` Then visit `localhost:3000` in your browser. ### Rebuild cluster ```bash $ docker-compose build ``` ### Delete data and rebuild ```bash $ docker volume rm invidious_postgresdata $ docker-compose build ``` ## Manual installation ### Linux #### Install the dependencies Arch Linux ```bash sudo pacman -S base-devel shards crystal librsvg postgresql ``` Ubuntu or Debian ```bash # First you have to add the repository to your APT configuration. For easy setup just run in your command line: curl -fsSL https://crystal-lang.org/install.sh | sudo bash # That will add the signing key and the repository configuration. # If you prefer to do it manually, Follow the instructions here https://crystal-lang.org/install sudo apt-get update sudo apt install crystal libssl-dev libxml2-dev libyaml-dev libgmp-dev libreadline-dev postgresql librsvg2-bin libsqlite3-dev zlib1g-dev ``` Fedora ```bash # To install crystal on fedora, you can either install: # - with brew/snap: https://crystal-lang.org/install/on_fedora/ # - from tarball: https://crystal-lang.org/install/from_targz/ # Currently, invidious depends on crystal 0.36.1-1, so a tarball install is necessary. cd ~/Downloads wget https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/releases/download/0.36.1/crystal-0.36.1-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz cd /opt sudo tar -xzf ~/Downloads/crystal-0.36.1-1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz sudo ln -s /opt/crystal-0.36.1-1/bin/crystal /usr/local/bin/crystal sudo ln -s /opt/crystal-0.36.1-1/bin/shards /usr/local/bin/shards # Then use dnf to install the dependencies: sudo dnf install -y openssl-devel libevent-devel libxml2-devel libyaml-devel gmp-devel readline-devel postgresql librsvg2-devel sqlite-devel zlib-devel gcc ``` #### Add an Invidious user and clone the repository ```bash $ useradd -m invidious $ sudo -i -u invidious $ git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious $ exit ``` #### Set up PostgresSQL ```bash $ sudo systemctl enable --now postgresql $ sudo -i -u postgres $ psql -c "CREATE USER kemal WITH PASSWORD 'kemal';" # Change 'kemal' here to a stronger password, and update `password` in config/config.yml $ createdb -O kemal invidious $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/channels.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/channel_videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/users.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/session_ids.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/nonces.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/annotations.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/playlists.sql $ psql invidious kemal < /home/invidious/invidious/config/sql/playlist_videos.sql $ exit ``` #### Set up Invidious ```bash $ sudo -i -u invidious $ cd invidious $ shards update && shards install $ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release # test compiled binary $ ./invidious # stop with ctrl c $ exit ``` #### Systemd service ```bash $ sudo cp /home/invidious/invidious/invidious.service /etc/systemd/system/invidious.service $ sudo systemctl enable --now invidious.service ``` #### Logrotate ```bash $ echo "/home/invidious/invidious/invidious.log { rotate 4 weekly notifempty missingok compress minsize 1048576 }" | sudo tee /etc/logrotate.d/invidious.logrotate $ sudo chmod 0644 /etc/logrotate.d/invidious.logrotate ``` ### MacOS ```bash # Install dependencies $ brew update $ brew install shards crystal postgres imagemagick librsvg # Clone the repository and set up a PostgreSQL database $ git clone https://github.com/iv-org/invidious $ cd invidious $ brew services start postgresql $ psql -c "CREATE ROLE kemal WITH PASSWORD 'kemal';" # Change 'kemal' here to a stronger password, and update `password` in config/config.yml $ createdb -O kemal invidious $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/channels.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/channel_videos.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/users.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/session_ids.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/nonces.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/annotations.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/privacy.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/playlists.sql $ psql invidious kemal < config/sql/playlist_videos.sql # Set up Invidious $ shards update && shards install $ crystal build src/invidious.cr --release ``` ## Post-install configuration: Detailed configuration available in the [configuration guide](./Configuration.md). Because of various issues Invidious **must** be restarted often, at least once a day, ideally every hours. If you use a reverse proxy, you **must** configure invidious to properly serve request through it: `https_only: true` : if your are serving your instance via https, set it to true `domain: domain.ext`: if you are serving your instance via a domain name, set it here `external_port: 443`: if your are serving your instance via https, set it to 443 ## Update Invidious Instructions are available in the [updating guide](./Updating.md). ## Usage: ```bash $ ./invidious -h Usage: invidious [arguments] -b HOST, --bind HOST Host to bind (defaults to 0.0.0.0) -p PORT, --port PORT Port to listen for connections (defaults to 3000) -s, --ssl Enables SSL --ssl-key-file FILE SSL key file --ssl-cert-file FILE SSL certificate file -h, --help Shows this help -c THREADS, --channel-threads=THREADS Number of threads for refreshing channels (default: 1) -f THREADS, --feed-threads=THREADS Number of threads for refreshing feeds (default: 1) -o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT Redirect output (default: STDOUT) -v, --version Print version ``` Or for development: ```bash $ curl -fsSLo- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samueleaton/sentry/master/install.cr | crystal eval $ ./sentry 🤖 Your SentryBot is vigilant. beep-boop... ```