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Bare Metal Route

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Paperless runs on linux only. The following procedure has been tested on a minimal installation of Debian/Buster, which is the current stable release at the time of writing. Windows is not and will never be supported.

Paperless requires Python 3. At this time, 3.9 - 3.11 are tested versions. Newer versions may work, but some dependencies may not fully support newer versions. Support for older Python versions may be dropped as they reach end of life or as newer versions are released, dependency support is confirmed, etc.

  1. Install dependencies. Paperless requires the following packages.

    • python3
    • python3-pip
    • python3-dev
    • default-libmysqlclient-dev for MariaDB
    • pkg-config for mysqlclient (python dependency)
    • fonts-liberation for generating thumbnails for plain text files
    • imagemagick >= 6 for PDF conversion
    • gnupg for handling encrypted documents
    • libpq-dev for PostgreSQL
    • libmagic-dev for mime type detection
    • mariadb-client for MariaDB compile time
    • mime-support for mime type detection
    • libzbar0 for barcode detection
    • poppler-utils for barcode detection
    • whatever

  2. Create a system user with a new home folder under which you wish to run paperless.

    adduser paperless --system --home /opt/paperless --group

  3. Get the release archive from https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/releases for example with

    curl -O -L https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/releases/download/v1.10.2/paperless-ngx-v1.10.2.tar.xz

    Extract the archive with

    tar -xf paperless-ngx-v1.10.2.tar.xz

    and copy the contents to the home folder of the user you created before (/opt/paperless).

Quellen

Paperless-ngx Dokumentation https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/setup/#bare_metal
Tutorial Paperless-ngx Discussion https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx/discussions/5822
Update Tutorial https://nerdig.es/paperless-baremetal-update/