(I apologize if this is not the right community for the question described in the post title.)

My problem with setting up Mollysocket is that my knowledge and competence with such things is very limited (I have MSc in natural sciences) so the instructions on their Github repo are not clear enough for me to resolve the issues I’ve faced. I have a strong passion for these though, and there are still lots of things I do understand.

However, none of the three alternative methods to install Mollysocket worked. First I tried using crates.io, but hit the wall when trying to perform “cargo install mollysocket” because it ended up giving a feature error which I couldn’t pass regardless the given instructions of using nightly version and enabling such unstable feature (+ I’ve no idea where to find Cargo.toml file).

So next I tried the precompiled version, but then the issue was that I couldn’t start mollysocket via systemctl. Troubleshooting by myself was impossible because I couldn’t find anything from the search engines related to this.

And the Docker option, well, I think I understood everything until the step where I should generate VAPID key. I copy-pasted the given command from their Github, but this results in a error that such command does not exist.

The instructions given on their Github are, in my opinion, not so beginner friendly, thus I would be very grateful to those who could help with this.

  • @Deckweiss
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    1 day ago

    What OS/distro are you using?

    • @TheGreatestLemmyUserOP
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      I’m currently running Linux Mint (though I’m okay and/or planning to change the distro once I succeed with this setup for the first time).