Install Discourse on Ubuntu or Debian for Development

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What is the current guide on development install?

It seems that the repository linked in the first post was archived:

This repository was archived by the owner on Apr 3, 2025. It is now read-only.

Is there a replacement?

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Iā€™m setting up dev environment on Ubuntu (WSL2) and I installed PostgreSQL using asdf. now db:create complains that socket canā€™t be found at path /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432. But for me the socket is at /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432. Where can I configure correct path? discourse.config doesnā€™t seem to have any effect.

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Isn't the installation of mailhog very important? One cannot activate their account if it's not installed.  EDIT: Perhaps not.

Furthermore, bin/ember-cli -u throws an error about ImageMagick if itā€™s not installed/not the correct version. Iā€™m following ChatGPT (please, donā€™t judge) to install a later version of it since (for some reason) the magick command doesnā€™t exist on my version. Crossing my fingers hoping itā€™ll work.

EDIT: :tada: ChatGPT actually helped! Discourse is now running on 4200.

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In my 7 years of discourse development I think Iā€™ve installed it once. Just run the rake task to establish the admin user.

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If youā€™re referring to bin/rails admin:create then yes, I did that, so I edited my post above because I realised that I didnā€™t need to verify my account (and subsequent user accounts can be activated manually).

However, coming back to the ImageMagick part, is there a way for one not to use ImageMagick (i.e. truly making it ā€˜optionalā€™)?