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I have tried the docker, ansible, and scratch methods. I have been troubleshooting for a month now. I have gotten nowhere. I need someone to help walk me through how to deploy a lemmy server because the guides are absolute trash.

Please help. I'm wasting money running this VPS and for literally nothing.

Edit: So, I've tried the ansible method, but I can't access my server this way. It just keeps saying "UNREACHABLE". I have generated a dozen keys, none of them work. I have NO PROBLEMS with ssh in Putty. I can use Putty all day. Putty works fine using my ssh key. Ansible does not. No amount of new keys has made any difference. I have countless keys in my stupid droplet because of this hacky garbage.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

putty

That's your problem. Putty does keys differently to normal ssh.

ansible

docker

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So, why can't you install lemmy? I'm going to assume you're using ubuntu. If you are willing to swap to arch (which I think DO offers), I recommend it. Get an AUR helper installed (a bit of hassle, I like trizen) and install lemmy from AUR. You'll need to bump the commit unless you like 0.17.3. I'll be doing that tonight so I can post relevant bits. If not, post errors.

Or just keep doing containers so you can have weird and wonderful errors like no dns.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why does every Linux problem solution involve installing a different distro

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just that ubuntu, and everything in the debian family, sucks massive ass, and few people acknowledge it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently including the people who developed Lemmy who chose to recommend Ubuntu...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is a disturbingly large number of people that haven't figured out how much ubuntu sucks.