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is it possible to ship pre-built package?

Upstream recommends using docker, for which they have pre-built images (that might also work with podman).

PostgreSQL 18 is coming to the Arch repos. Before upgrading, backup the files for vectorchord and pgvector somewhere, and then follow https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PostgreSQL#Upgrading_PostgreSQL instructions. (In the next release, I'll also update the postinstall message to recommend changing postgresql.conf instead of doing ALTER SYSTEM SET.)

Also, you may find yourself updating VectorChord in this process. When doing so, remember to follow the migration steps at https://docs.immich.app/administration/postgres-standalone/#updating-vectorchord .

immich-web (localhost/immich-server:2283) used to be broken for some users of this package.

As @yparitcher also noticed, this was most likely caused by the following additions to .gitignore from f4e0aad2c495, which have since be reverted:

src/
pkg/
*.pkg.tar.zst
LICENSES/

The reason—for both this change sometimes and unpredictably breaking the build, and builds under a clean chroot still working—is unknown. I meant to investigate this on 2025-08-19 while updating the package but called it a day due to the unpredictability and long time of building. Help with figuring out why this happened would be greatly appreciated.

You may notice pacman refuse to upgrade this package, saying warning: cannot resolve "vectorchord", a dependency of "immich-server".

This is due to required manual intervention within the immich server database.

Newer versions of immich server have deprecated pgvecto.rs in favor of vectorchord.

Before updating from 1.133.1 or older, please follow steps 1 and 2 of the manual migration steps (should be the second dropdown) at https://immich.app/docs/administration/postgres-standalone/#migrating-to-vectorchord and uninstall pgvecto.rs.

Remember to remove references to "vectors.so" (which is shipped by pgvecto.rs) in shared_preload_libraries before pgvecto.rs in uninstalled. (For vectorchord to work, you'll need to add "vchord.so" to shared_preload_libraries after the upgrade as well.)

After that, you may upgrade this package. Please remember to follow steps 4 and 5 of the manual migration steps after the upgrade is finished to prevent data loss.

Version 1.118.0 is released. Note that some changes are needed, microserver.service must be removed also the node argument is removed; ExecStart=node dist/main (remove immich argument). Also port is changed to 2283.

Please don't throw the nginx config into /etc/nginx/sites-available, as it is usually unused. You could refer to the nginx config in the docs.

Is redis necessary or could be valkey also used?

==> Making package: immich 1.117.0-1 (Mon 14 Oct 2024 03:00:02 PM CEST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...                                                                                                                                                          
==> Installing missing dependencies...                                                                                                                                                        
resolving dependencies...                                                                                                                                                                     
looking for conflicting packages...                                                                                                                                                           
:: redis-7.2.5-1 and valkey-8.0.1-1 are in conflict. Remove valkey? [y/N]                                                                                                                     
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected                        

Any chance https://github.com/immich-app/immich/commit/9bdfb41e9c00e0053994fbfe9f46f377016656d3 can be included before the next release?

It would be helpful if there was a mention of manually creating the immich database on install of immich-server.

Is there a way to get hardware acceleration working for the machine-learning service? Obviously the instructions for the docker container do not apply here.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, can't reach the site after installing the package and enabling the services. Nothing is listening on http://192.168.x.x:2283. I tried install nginx, but same issue (reached the default page, so know it's running).

Just noticed that it seems to restart after 5-6 seconds, so think that's why. Not sure why it does tho. The only thing I see in the logs is DeprecationWarning: The util._extend API is deprecated. Please use Object.assign() instead.

[EDIT] Finally got it to run after running it in terminal and got all the errors there. Had to manually editing the database, added user and added pgvecto.rs to extensions thru psql, and updated pgvecto.rs in postgre. Isn't really install and run.

Could you please remove the Postgres dependency from the services? Databases usually run on separate hosts. It currently requires editing the .service files, as overrides can't clear out dependency settings such as Requires. Thank you!

From v1.111.0, this package does not build with nodejs < v20.

I saw the release notes for v1.106.4 mention immich-microservices can now be run by immich-server so wonder whether its service file could be dropped?