Advanced setup from source

tip

This guide is for experienced system administrators. The recommended installation method is using Docker with systemd.

info

This guide is meant to be read in conjunction with Draupnir parameters and options.

These instructions are to build and run Draupnir without using Docker. You need to have installed Node.js 24 and npm.

git clone --branch v3.0.0 --depth 1 https://github.com/the-draupnir-project/Draupnir.git
cd Draupnir
git fetch --tags

npm ci
npm run build

# Copy and edit the config. It *is* recommended to change the data path,
# as this is set to `/data` by default for dockerised draupnir.
cp config/default.yaml config/production.yaml
nano config/production.yaml

./draupnir-entrypoint.sh bot --draupnir-config ./config/production.yaml

Legacy versions

For Draupnir versions v2.9.0 and below, Draupnir requires yarn classic and Node 20. Instructions are otherwise the same, except instead of using npm to install dependencies and build, you instead use

yarn install
yarn build