Installed in five minutes, on your server.
Lore and PostgreSQL, nothing else: with Docker, a .deb or .rpm package, or an archive. No other service to install, back up or update.
Lore has not been released yet. These steps describe the installation planned for version 0.1. Follow the project on GitHub
What you need
- System
- Linux, or macOS and Windows for a trial
- Software
- Docker 24 with Docker Compose, or PostgreSQL 18 with a package or the archive
- Resources
- 2 CPUs and 4 GB of memory for a team (indicative)
- Disk
- 10 GB, plus the size of your documents
- Network
- A domain name and a certificate for HTTPS, recommended
Install with Docker
Download the starter file
curl -LO https://github.com/dada-core/lore/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.ymlChoose the database password
echo "DB_PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -base64 24)" > .envStart
docker compose up -dFinish in the browser
Open your server’s address and enter the setup code, shown by docker compose logs lore: the screen then creates the organization and the first administrator account.
See the setup screen
Or without Docker
.deb package
Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04, Debian 12 and 13. A systemd service, updated with apt.
.rpm package
RHEL, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux 8, 9 and 10. A systemd service, updated with dnf.
Back up
A copy of the database with pg_dump and a copy of the files folder are enough.
Update
Install the new image or the new package: database migrations are applied on startup.
UpgradingServe over HTTPS
Put Lore behind your usual reverse proxy: Caddy, Nginx or Traefik.
HTTPS and reverse proxy