Installation options

rjbudzynski · July 31, 2024, 9:18am

Hi,

I’m itching to give silverbullet a try, but I’m not sure I understand all the installation options. Specifically, the docs make it seem like installing on Deno Deploy was a variant of local installation - but isn’t a Deno Deploy installation visible from the web, and can be used to share silverbullet content between my various devices? Or am I misunderstanding?

zef · July 31, 2024, 10:51am

You are right, this was misleading in the docs, I just updated them (should go live a bit later). Deno Deploy indeed exposes an instance to the public Internet, it’s also quite experimental, I haven’t tried it myself recently and don’t regularly check if it still works.

rjbudzynski · July 31, 2024, 12:28pm

The instructions you give don’t work anymore. The Deno Deploy dashboard has no option to create an empty project, the only way is by linking to a github repo.

In addition, the deployctl command attempts to upload all files from the current working directory to the project.

smileBeda · August 1, 2024, 8:18am

You should be able to just download this script and run it in your terminal, it will literally do the rest for you:

github.com

silverbulletmd/silverbullet/blob/main/install.sh

#!/bin/sh

set -e

if ! command -v unzip >/dev/null; then
	echo "Error: unzip is required to install SilverBullet." 1>&2
	exit 1
fi

case $(uname -sm) in
"Darwin x86_64") target="darwin-x86_64" ;;
"Darwin arm64") target="darwin-aarch64" ;;
"Linux arm64") target="linux-aarch64" ;;
*) target="linux-x86_64" ;;
esac

echo "Installing for $target"

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
	sb_uri="https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/releases/latest/download/silverbullet-server-${target}.zip"

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AFAIK this does no witchery with any “accessible” stuffs, it just exposes the tool on your localhost:3000. But I might be wrong. This is how I run SB locally (well, I wrapped the whole thing into a MacOS app just to have an app and not needing an open terminal but that is unrelated).

rjbudzynski · August 1, 2024, 9:35am

That’s all fine, but I was talking about the Deno Deploy installation, not the local installation.

smileBeda · August 1, 2024, 9:57am

Got it, sorry, I thought you where looking for a “simpler” way as in not following many steps
My bad

zef · August 1, 2024, 10:48am

Yeah ok, Deno Deploy is moving fast. Those instructions need to be adapted. I think that @Maarrk mentioned he used (or was looking at) deploying SB to Deploy for some friends, maybe has insight here.

At some point I may look at this myself and update the instructions but it’s not at the top of my priority list. If somebody else wants to play around with this and give updated instructions, that’s be much appreciated.

Maarrk · August 1, 2024, 7:21pm

We figured out that creating empty project is unavailable from the web UI, but could make it work from deployctl. Also ran into a bit unexpected uploading of the entire home folder, but a panicked Ctrl-Cing fortunately stopped it.

No promises on the timelines for guides, but it’s added to the list. On a page. In you-know-which app