How to Install Dendrite on Alpine Linux Latest

Dendrite is an open-source matrix server that provides a high-performance, easily deployable and scalable matrix homeserver written in Go.

This tutorial will walk you through the steps necessary to install Dendrite on Alpine Linux Latest.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, ensure that:

• You have an up-to-date instance of Alpine Linux Latest
• You have root access or sudo privileges

Step 1: Install Dependencies

Before installing Dendrite, you need to install all the required dependencies. To do so, execute the following command:

apk add --no-cache git build-base go

This command will install Git, build-base and Go on your system.

Step 2: Clone Dendrite Repository

The next step is to clone the Dendrite repository using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite.git --branch master --depth 1

This command will clone the Dendrite repository to your current working directory.

Step 3: Build Dendrite

Now that you have cloned the Dendrite repository, go to the dendrite directory and build Dendrite using the following command:

cd dendrite
go build

This command will build Dendrite for your Alpine Linux Latest System.

Step 4: Configure Dendrite

Before starting the Dendrite server, you need to configure it first. You can use the generate subcommand to generate the necessary configuration files by executing the following command:

./dendrite-keyserver generate
./dendrite-federation-api generate
./dendrite-monolith generate

This will generate the keyserver, federation api, and monolith configuration files respectively.

Step 5: Run Dendrite

Once you have generated the configuration files, you’re ready to start the Dendrite server. You can run the Dendrite servers with the following command:

./dendrite-keyserver server -c dendrite-keyserver.yaml 
./dendrite-federation-api server -c dendrite-federation-api.yaml 
./dendrite-monolith server -c dendrite-monolith.yaml

This will start the keyserver, federation api, and monolith servers, respectively.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learned how to install Dendrite on Alpine Linux Latest. You also learned how to configure and run the Dendrite servers. You can now use Dendrite to set up your Matrix homeserver.

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