I’m trying this on Ubuntu 22.04 Rust’s cargo install seems to keep creating permission problems between what I have to install, compile and what gets published in the cargo “registry”, which causes issues at runtime when I run as lemmy:lemmy through systemctl.
If I run: cargo install lemmy_server --target-dir /usr/bin/ --locked --features embed-pictrs as a non-root user, I get permission denied issues with /usr/bin/.future-incompat-report.json and /usr/bin/release
If I run the build as a root user, and then manually copy the binaries to /usr/bin and chmod them to lemmy:lemmy, then try to run as lemmy:lemmy, it appears the binary is trying to access some “registry” files in /root/.cargo/registry (for which of course it does not have permissions.)
How do I fix this?
Here’s how I do it. Might be worth giving it a shot. This is on FreeBSD, but I doubt that matters.
git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git lemmy cd lemmy git checkout 0.17.3 git submodule init git submodule update --recursive --remote echo "pub const VERSION: &str = \"$(git describe --tag)\";" > "crates/utils/src/version.rs" cargo build --release strip target/release/lemmy_serverThen copy target/release/lemmy_server to wherever you want to run it.
