• This will be a rapid and dirty Tutorial to gain the maximum afford.
• Moreover i would suggest to install on the host apt-cacher-ng and add the the VM:

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      * I assume you use a fresh, not used System.
      * If we need to compile, we use ccache here to speed up due it might a 50/50 chance of a failure ;-)
      * I also assume that this is a VM/Container that is exclusivly used for this. So that in case of a Totale failure, you can restore from a Snapshot or Backup you have to be done, before you started
      * We Assume, you use Debian 12 - if you use i.e. debian 11 use this before:
        * <code>
          OLDDISTRI=bullseye
          sed -i 's/\$OLDDISTRI/bookworm/gi' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
          sed -i 's/\%OLDDISTRI/bookworm/gi' /etc/apt/*.list
    
    
    
    ===== Installing Pre-Requirements ======
    
      * <code>
    INSTALLPATH=/opt/mastodon
    apt install -qy curl gnupg2 ca-certificates lsb-release debian-archive-keyring sudo git build-essential etckeeper  imagemagick ffmpeg libpq-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev file git-core g++ libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler pkg-config nodejs gcc autoconf bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm3 libgdbm-dev nginx libidn11-dev libicu-dev ccache libgdm1 libgdm-dev patch rustc libgmp-dev libgdbm6 libdb-dev uuid-dev git nano iptables-persistent bison libncurses5-dev 
    
    sudo curl https://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/nginx-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null
    sudo curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_current.x | sudo -E bash -
    echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.redis.io/deb $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/redis.list
    curl -fsSL https://packages.redis.io/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg
    echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
    echo "deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" >>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
    sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
    sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
    sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list'
    wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
    sudo echo \
      "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian \
      $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") stable" | \
      sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null
    for pkg in docker.io docker-doc docker-compose podman-docker containerd runc; do sudo apt-get remove $pkg; done 
    sudo apt -qy update && sudo apt -qy dist-upgrade  && sudo apt -qy install redis-server redis-tools postgresql postgresql-contrib nginx yarn letsencrypt
    sudo update-ccache-symlinks
    echo PATH="/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
    PATH="/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH"
    sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings

INSTALLPATH=/opt/mastodon/mastodon git clone https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon.git $INSTALLPATH git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv cd ~/.rbenv && src/configure && make -C src echo 'export PATH=“$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH”' » ~/.bashrc echo 'eval “$(rbenv init -)”' » ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc cd $INSTALLPATH gem install bundler git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git “$(rbenv root)”/plugins/ruby-build cd $INSTALLPATH && rbenv install 3.2.3 cd $INSTALLPATH && rbenv global 3.2.3

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    INSTALLPATH=/opt/mastodon
    INSTALLUSER=mastodon
    sudo adduser $INSTALLUSER 
    sudo adduser $INSTALLUSER docker
    sudo usermod --home=$INSTALLPATH $INSTALLUSER
    sudo usermod -g $INSTALLUSER www-data
    sudo usermod -g www-data $INSTALLUSER
    sudo chown -R $INSTALLUSER:www-data $INSTALLPATH
    sudo chmod 755 $INSTALLPATH
    su - $INSTALLUSER -c "cp $INSTALLPATH/.env.production.sample $INSTALLPATH/.env.production"
    su - $INSTALLUSER -c "sed -i 's/\bBuild: \./#Build: ./gi' $INSTALLPATH/docker-compose.yml"
    

• Short Info: You don't need edit the file, it will be overwritten by the next command.
• Follow up the configuration Guide. You don't need to compile your own Stuff. REALLY NOT. Save the Time
• Thats why we removed the build lines above.
• Trust me its a pain in the Backside and waste your time… ;-D

  •  docker-compose run --rm web bundle exec rake mastodon:setup 

• OPTIONAL: Pre-Compile all Assets.

  •  docker-compose run --rm web rake assets:precompile 

• We need to create and add some information for NGINX to use it
• Hint: If you need to use a other Reverse-Proxy in front of it, its untested and my not work

  • INSTALLPATH=/opt/mastodon
    sudo mkdir /var/www/letsencrypt
    sudo cp $INSTALLPATH/dist/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/mastodon
    sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mastodon /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mastodon 

• We Link the service-files to auto-update them

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    INSTALLPATH=/opt/mastodon
    INSTALLUSER=mastodon
    sudo ln -s $INSTALLPATH/dist/mastodon-sidekiq.service /etc/systemd/system/mastodon-sidekiq.service 
    sudo ln -s $INSTALLPATH/dist/mastodon-streaming.service /etc/systemd/system/mastodon-streaming.service 
    sudo ln -s $INSTALLPATH/dist/mastodon-web.service /etc/systemd/system/mastodon-web.service
    sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable --now mastodon.service 

• We Check if it was successfull:

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    INSTALLPATH=/opt/mastodon
    watch docker compose -f $INSTALLPATH/docker-compose.yml ps

• HowtoForge
• Mastodon Github: Docker-Guide
• Mastodon Github: Production Guide
• LinuxCapable
• hub.sunny.garden
• GitHub TrillCyborg
• rbenv Github: howto build
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