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installation issue #40

Closed chapochn closed 2 years ago

chapochn commented 2 years ago

Hello,

I tried to install on Mac using the docker method.

When I run:

docker run --rm -it --name signal-export \
  -v ${SIGNAL_INPUT}:/Signal \
  -v ${SIGNAL_OUTPUT}:/output \
  carderne/signal-export:latest

I get: Error: /tmp/Signal/config.json not found in directory /tmp/Signal

Any ideas? Thank you!

carderne commented 2 years ago

Two possibilities I think:

1) You didn't set the environment variables. In that case, run the following (I've also made the README a bit more clear).

SIGNAL_INPUT="~/Library/Application Support/Signal" 
SIGNAL_OUTPUT=~/Documents/output
docker run --rm -it --name signal-export \
  -v ${SIGNAL_INPUT}:/Signal \
  -v ${SIGNAL_OUTPUT}:/output \
  carderne/signal-export:latest

2) Docker has pulled a slightly outdated version of the image, in which case try the following (still making sure the env vars above are set!). Note the added option --pull=always.

docker run --rm --pull=always -it --name signal-export \
  -v ${SIGNAL_INPUT}:/Signal \
  -v ${SIGNAL_OUTPUT}:/output \
  carderne/signal-export:latest
chapochn commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the quick response!

I need to put: SIGNAL_INPUT=~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal because SIGNAL_INPUT="~/Library/Application Support/Signal" gives errors.

This worked:

docker run --rm --pull=always -it --name signal-export \
  -v ${SIGNAL_INPUT}:/Signal \
  -v ${SIGNAL_OUTPUT}:/output \
  carderne/signal-export:latest

Thank you!

Lots of gratitude for coding and publishing this!