Using Tidepool on Linux

[sonocculture]

I want to install the Tidepool Uploader on Ubuntu 22.04 following the instructions helpfully provided here. After a few hours of sleuthing, I still don't understand how Docker works and how to follow these instructions:

• Build the image docker-compose build
• Run it docker-compose up -d

1. Do I just run docker-compose build from the path of where I cloned the repository, and then Docker takes care of the rest?
2. If I'm using Docker, do I still have to install/configure nvm, npm, and yarn (as per https://github.com/tidepool-org/uploader?tab=readme-ov-file#how-to-set-it-up), or is that for something else?

Would it be possible to expand on these instructions for less experienced linux users?

Feel free to delete if this is not the right place for questions like these.

[gniezen]

Hi @sonocculture ! There are some issues with the Docker setup at the moment, so I would recommend using the approach you mentioned in (2). While we don't officially support Linux at the moment, I use Linux to develop Uploader, so may be able to help you with any issues that you run into.