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This page describes manually installing Trilium on your server. **Note that this is a not well supported way to install Trilium, problems may appear, information laid out here is quite out of date. It is recommended to use either Docker or packaged build installation.**
## Requirements
Trilium is a node.js application. Supported (tested) version of node.js is latest 14.X.X and 16.X.X. Trilium might work with older versions as well.
You can check your node version with this command (node.js needs to be installed):
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node --version
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If your Linux distribution has only an outdated version of node.js, you can take a look at the installation instruction on node.js website, which covers most popular distributions.
### Dependencies
There are some dependencies required. You can see command for Debian and its derivatives (like Ubuntu) below:
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sudo apt install libpng16-16 libpng-dev pkg-config autoconf libtool build-essential nasm libx11-dev libxkbfile-dev
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## Installation
### Download
You can either download source code zip/tar from [[latest release|https://github.com/zadam/trilium/releases/latest]] or clone git repository **from stable branch** with
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git clone -b stable https://github.com/zadam/trilium.git
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## Installation
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cd trilium
# download all node dependencies
npm install
# make sure the better-sqlite3 binary is there
npm rebuild
# bundles & minifies frontend JavaScript
npm run webpack
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## Run
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cd trilium
# using nohup to make sure trilium keeps running after user logs out
nohup TRILIUM_ENV=dev node src/www &
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The application by default starts up on port 8080, so you can open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080 to access Trilium (replace "localhost" with your hostname).
## TLS
Don't forget to [[configure TLS|TLS configuration]], which is required for secure usage!
See https://docs.triliumnotes.org/user-guide/setup/server/installation/manual.