I’m trying to spin up an instance on a local VM for my own testing so using the docker install.

I’ve reaching the point the instructions that say to run docker-compose up -d.

When I run that as my normal non-root user, I get a permission denied error.

$ docker-compose up -d
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 699, in urlopen
    httplib_response = self._make_request(
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 394, in _make_request
    conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1282, in request
    self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1328, in _send_request
    self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1277, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1037, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 975, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/transport/unixconn.py", line 30, in connect
    sock.connect(self.unix_socket)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

The first time I ran it with sudo, it downloaded a bunch of stuff (but to where I have no clue), and then gave the following error. Every subsequent run it skips the downloading (presumably because it already has all that), and goes straight to the error.

$ sudo docker-compose up -d
Creating network "lemmy_lemmyinternal" with driver "bridge"
Creating network "lemmy_lemmyexternalproxy" with the default driver
Pulling pictrs (asonix/pictrs:0.4.0-beta.19)...
0.4.0-beta.19: Pulling from asonix/pictrs
ef5531b6e74e: Pull complete
1f0396fae2e3: Pull complete
9115eac87d97: Pull complete
e38b3eb392e4: Pull complete
4d5295668c45: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:480d36cd97e5e98e7c76c7d226dc009bd5bb9fa065fdc1f4207699f16e8cc61e
Status: Downloaded newer image for asonix/pictrs:0.4.0-beta.19
Pulling postgres (postgres:15-alpine)...
15-alpine: Pulling from library/postgres
31e352740f53: Pull complete
d7c8ef16402f: Pull complete
36cb57831f52: Pull complete
a120e2610875: Pull complete
64f9e9ad23bd: Pull complete
dd2a4281faaa: Pull complete
daef310ca2c6: Pull complete
c47c060e762a: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:48d8422c6ae570a5bda52f07548b8e65dd055ac0b661f25b44b20e8cff2f75f0
Status: Downloaded newer image for postgres:15-alpine
Building lemmy
unable to prepare context: unable to evaluate symlinks in Dockerfile path: lstat /home/ME/docker: no such file or directory

It’s clearly complaining about a missing file or folder in my home dir, but I have no idea what’s supposed to be in that file/folder and it’s not mentioned in the instructions. Suggestions?

ETA: Just to try something, I did a mkdir ~/docker and then touch ~/docker/Dockerfile, and now I get…

$ sudo docker-compose up -d
Building lemmy
Sending build context to Docker daemon  111.6MB
Error response from daemon: the Dockerfile (docker/Dockerfile) cannot be empty
ERROR: Service 'lemmy' failed to build : Build failed

Again. I have no idea what’s supposed to be in that file. It’s not mentioned in the instructions.