How to Install Mealie on Alpine Linux Latest

Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and planner written in Python. This tutorial will guide you through the installation process of Mealie on Alpine Linux Latest.

Prerequisites

• A virtual machine or dedicated server running Alpine Linux Latest
• A non-root user with sudo privileges

Step 1: Update your system

Ensure your system is up to date by running the following command:

sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade

Step 2: Installing Dependencies

Install the required dependencies for Mealie by running the following command:

sudo apk add python3 python3-dev py3-pip postgresql-dev build-base libxml2-dev libxslt-dev jpeg-dev zlib-dev

Step 3: Install Mealie

1. Clone the Mealie source code from the official GitHub repository:

git clone https://github.com/hay-kot/mealie.git

2. Navigate to the cloned directory:

cd mealie/

3. Use pip to install Mealie:

sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt

4. Create a new PostgreSQL database and user for Mealie:

sudo -u postgres createdb mealie
sudo -u postgres createuser -d -P mealie

5. Set the required environment variables in .env file for Mealie:

DATABASE_URL=postgres://mealie:<your-db-password>@localhost/mealie
SECRET_KEY=<your-secret-key>

6. Run the following command to run database migrations:

python3 manage.py migrate

7. Run the following command to create an admin user:

python3 manage.py createsuperuser

8. Finally, start the Mealie server:

python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

Step 4: Accessing Mealie

Open up your web browser and navigate to http://your-server-ip:8000/admin to access Mealie. You should be able to login with the admin user you created in step 3.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Mealie on Alpine Linux Latest.

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