How to install PhotoPrism in Jail?

[Daisuke]

The py-tensorflow port is marked as "BROKEN"

Where did you see the broken info? I'm learning, thanks. Edit: Saw your replies into ticket, it would be great if you can get tensorflow working. Looking at this bug report, people are complaining about interactive questions. make has the option to respond to interactive options with default values, so this should not be a problem? I say this, based on previous Linux experiences, we are in a different OS.

 

[gt2416]

I managed to install Photoprism using the pre built package and some dependencies. (No need to wait hours for it to build, yay)

In the jail do make sure your on the latest pkg branch in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf

pkg update pkg install ffmpeg openjdk p5-Image-ExifTool py38-tensorflow

fetch https://github.com/psa/photoprism-freebsd-port/releases/download/2021-05-23/photoprism-g20210523-FreeBSD-12.2-noAVX.txz pkg add photoprism-g20210523-FreeBSD-12.2-noAVX.txz

Its installed, to configure add these lines to /etc/rc.conf

Code:

photoprism_enable="YES"
photoprism_assetspath="/var/db/photoprism/assets"
photoprism_storagepath="/var/db/photoprism/storage"
#photoprism_logfilename="/var/log/prism.log"
photoprism_originalspath="/var/db/photoprism/storage/originals"
photoprism_importpath="/var/db/photoprism/storage/import"

Then set the initial password with this command

Code:

photoprism --assets-path=/var/db/photoprism/assets --storage-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage --originals-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage/originals --import-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage/import passwd

And run photoprism with this command:

Code:

photoprism --assets-path=/var/db/photoprism/assets --storage-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage --originals-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage/originals --import-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage/import --log-filename /var/log/prism.log start

Done.

For some reason starting photoprism with service photoprism start does not work, the rc file looks like it imports all the flags properly so idk. Till someone can help with that we need to use the command above to start it.
Photoprism seems like an ALMOST perfect google photos replacement, its got a really nice UI and Object detection which is really good and hard to find in other self hosted projects BUT its missing a huge feature for me which makes it unusable, no multi user support.
I've been toying with piwigo and its UI is ok, not object detection but has multi user support so, guess ill stick with it. Also Piwigo has some weird bugs when running behind caddy, had to use apache for it which takes a lot longer to setup.
Anyone else have thoughts on google photo self hosted replacements ?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Anyone else have thoughts on google photo self hosted replacements?

I never used google photo but I am very frustrated with the development of Apple's photo apps. iPhoto was just perfect for me. It had this concept of "events". Import photos and it will group them by date into events. You can merge or split them as you like - very conveniently. And you can of course name them and sort them into folders, e.g. per year. One photo is always in precisely one event.

Anyone know an app that does that? Now with Fotos instead of iPhoto all is just one continuous timeline, face detection, automatic whatever - I don't want any of that. I sort my photos as I see fit. Period. I am seeking an app that emulates a shelf full of boxes full of slides as much as possible. You label the box "Summer vacation 2018" and that's that. That's an event in iPhoto.

Just using albums in Fotos instead of events doesn't work. There is no way to tell if a particular photo is in more than one or in no album at all.

Do you think I would like Piwigo?

Thanks!
Patrick

 

[gt2416]

Do you think I would like Piwigo?

It doesn't have many smart features but since you said you like to sort your Photos by yourself I think you may like it. You can use tags as in place of events to group / sort photos. Its more traditional like iPhotos with simple albums and tags and would solve that issue where you don't know if a photo is in multiple albums.

I personally don't need any smart features either but my mom, my god she has like 17k photos from 3 years and 90% of them are garbage stuff from work. Without some smart features, going through her photos is basically just a pile of work information (or gruesome pictures of patients wounds and stuff, yuuck) and no way does she have time to sort anything manually.

 

[bigjay517]

I managed to install Photoprism using the pre built package and some dependencies. (No need to wait hours for it to build, yay)

In the jail do make sure your on the latest pkg branch in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf

pkg update pkg install ffmpeg openjdk p5-Image-ExifTool py38-tensorflow

fetch https://github.com/psa/photoprism-freebsd-port/releases/download/2021-05-23/photoprism-g20210523-FreeBSD-12.2-noAVX.txz pkg add photoprism-g20210523-FreeBSD-12.2-noAVX.txz

Its installed, to configure add these lines to /etc/rc.conf

Code:

photoprism_enable="YES"
photoprism_assetspath="/var/db/photoprism/assets"
photoprism_storagepath="/var/db/photoprism/storage"
#photoprism_logfilename="/var/log/prism.log"
photoprism_originalspath="/var/db/photoprism/storage/originals"
photoprism_importpath="/var/db/photoprism/storage/import"

Then set the initial password with this command

Code:

photoprism --assets-path=/var/db/photoprism/assets --storage-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage --originals-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage/originals --import-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage/import passwd

And run photoprism with this command:

Code:

photoprism --assets-path=/var/db/photoprism/assets --storage-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage --originals-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage/originals --import-path=/var/db/photoprism/storage/import --log-filename /var/log/prism.log start

Done.

For some reason starting photoprism with service photoprism start does not work, the rc file looks like it imports all the flags properly so idk. Till someone can help with that we need to use the command above to start it.
Photoprism seems like an ALMOST perfect google photos replacement, its got a really nice UI and Object detection which is really good and hard to find in other self hosted projects BUT its missing a huge feature for me which makes it unusable, no multi user support.
I've been toying with piwigo and its UI is ok, not object detection but has multi user support so, guess ill stick with it. Also Piwigo has some weird bugs when running behind caddy, had to use apache for it which takes a lot longer to setup.
Anyone else have thoughts on google photo self hosted replacements ?

Did you create a photoprism user and group? I had the same problem then realized that the rc.d/photoprism was trying to start with a user named 'photoprism'.

 

[gt2416]

Did you create a photoprism user and group? I had the same problem then realized that the rc.d/photoprism was trying to start with a user named 'photo \prism'.

Thanks !
I missed that when I was looking at the RC script. I changed the user to root and it works fine. (Root cause I’m just testing it )

 

[felipeflorencio]

Thanks !
I missed that when I was looking at the RC script. I changed the user to root and it works fine. (Root cause I’m just testing it )

Not clear for me how we should change the user? I need to change/add another variable inside the photoprism file?

 

[gt2416]

Not clear for me how we should change the user? I need to change/add another variable inside the photoprism file?

Well you have two options,
1) Add "photoprism" user, Use this command inside the jail:
pw useradd -n photoprism -u 1103 -d /nonexistent -s /usr/sbin/nologin
OR
2) Add your own media user in the jail, editing the command I posted above with your user and uid, then edit this file
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/photoprism
Find this line
command_args="-f -T photoprism -p ${pidfile} -u photoprism /usr/local/bin/photoprism.....
and edit the username which I highlighted.

After doing either of those set permissions with your user and uid accordingly:

Code:

chown -R username:username photoprism_assetspath="/var/db/photoprism/assets"
chown -R username:username photoprism_storagepath="/var/db/photoprism/storage"
chown -R username:username photoprism_logfilename="/var/log/prism.log"
chown -R username:username photoprism_originalspath="/var/db/photoprism/storage/originals"
chown -R username:username photoprism_importpath="/var/db/photoprism/storage/import"

Then you can start it with service photoprism start

 

[agmotol]

Why am I having an error?

Code:

root@test:~ # cd photoprism-freebsd-port
root@test:~/photoprism-freebsd-port # make config
make: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk" line 32: Cannot open /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
make: "/root/photoprism-freebsd-port/Makefile" line 61: Malformed conditional (${OPSYS} == FreeBSD && ${OSVERSION} > 1100000 && ${OSVERSION} < 1200000)
make: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk" line 32: Cannot open /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
make: stopped in /root/photoprism-freebsd-port

 

[Jack828]

Why am I having an error?

Code:

root@test:~ # cd photoprism-freebsd-port
root@test:~/photoprism-freebsd-port # make config
make: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk" line 32: Cannot open /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
make: "/root/photoprism-freebsd-port/Makefile" line 61: Malformed conditional (${OPSYS} == FreeBSD && ${OSVERSION} > 1100000 && ${OSVERSION} < 1200000)
make: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk" line 32: Cannot open /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
make: Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
make: stopped in /root/photoprism-freebsd-port

Hey. There is information throughout this thread about changing which ports you're using so you can compile.

However, I got set up very quickly and easily using this post's guide https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/how-to-install-photoprism-in-jail.88862/post-652311

I would recommend you follow it to save compiling :)

 

[agmotol]

I would recommend you follow it to save compiling :)

thanks, but I can't install pkg - py38-tensorflow
error - not found pkg py38-tensorflow

 

[Samuel Tai]

According to TensorFlow, you need to run pip install tensorflow or pip install tensorflow-cpu if you don't have a GPU. Note, the Python pip installer may be named pip3 or pip38.

 

[MelaGo]

So there's a new version available
How do you easily upgrade?
When using the pkg add of the new release, I just get

Code:

the most recent version of photoprism-g20210523 is already installed

 

[agmotol]

According to TensorFlow, you need to run pip install tensorflow or pip install tensorflow-cpu if you don't have a GPU. Note, the Python pip installer may be named pip3 or pip38.

I installed pkg python38, but pip not found. I installed pkg py38-pip, but I have error when use command pip install tensorflow:
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement tensorflow
ERROR: No matching distribution found for tensorflow

 

[gt2416]

So there's a new version available
How do you easily upgrade?
When using the pkg add of the new release, I just get

Code:

the most recent version of photoprism-g20210523 is already installed

Sadly the only way is to wait for the new FreeBSD compiled version to be posted. As of right now I still cant compile it myself so yea..

There was an update 5 days ago,

https://github.com/psa/photoprism-freebsd-port/releases/download/2021-10-02/photoprism-g20211002-FreeBSD-12.2-noAVX.txz

 

[botham2021]

I managed to install Photoprism using the pre built package and some dependencies. (No need to wait hours for it to build, yay)

In the jail do make sure your on the latest pkg branch in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf

pkg update pkg install ffmpeg openjdk p5-Image-ExifTool py38-tensorflow

Thanks for the step by step details.

Like others, I can't install py38-tensorflow either. I've confirmed /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf is pointing to the latest, and I've done an pkg update. It fails with the 'not found'. Did you have need some other step to get py38-tensorflow somehow?

I was still able to bring up photoprism without it. It's importing pics happily.

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Any results for e.g. pkg search tensor?

 

[botham2021]

Any results for e.g. pkg search tensor?

This is my .conf:

Code:

root@photoprism:~ # grep latest /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",

No sign of anything like tensorflow. Do you see it in your environment?  I'm happy to provide any other diagnostic info to sort this out. 

root@photoprism:~ # pkg search tensor
R-cran-tensor-1.5              Tensor product of arrays
ambit-tensor-0.5.1             C++ library for tensor product calculations
xtensor-0.24.0                 Multi-dimensional arrays with broadcasting and lazy computing
xtensor-blas-0.20.0            BLAS extension to xtensor
xtensor-io-0.13.0              Xtensor plugin to read/write images, audio files, numpy npz and HDF5
xtensor-python-0.26.0          Python bindings for xtensor
root@photoprism:~ # pkg search tensor | grep flow
root@photoprism:~ # pkg search flow | grep tensor

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

What does freebsd-version<ENTER> in your jail say?

 

[botham2021]

It's a new Truenas Core install, about 2 weeks old. I grabbed the latest available on the download site.

Code:

root@photoprism:~ # freebsd-version
12.2-RELEASE-p11