---
title: 73 install libretranslate
summary: >
  Summarized how I finally got LibreTranslate installed on my local mastodon
  test-instance. <small>I am not affiliated with LibreTranslate -- this post reflects
  my own use case. The thumbnail is a trademark of
  [LibreTranslate](https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/blob/main/TRADEMARK.md).</small>
date: 2024-12-07T07:22:28+01:00
lastmod: 2024-12-08T11:14:36+0000
categories:
  - amateur-radio
  - computerstuff
tags:
  - draft_post

# showBreadcrumbs: true
# showDate: false
# showReadingTime: false
# showWordCount: false
# showPagination: false

# feed_exclude: true
# site_exclude: true

# some help
#
# highlighting with highlights
#
# use table, as inline creates a padding around
# and it pushes the text more to the right side (end of screen)
#
# ~~~html {linenos=table,hl_lines="3-6"}
# ~~~html {linenos=inline,hl_lines="1,3-6"}

draft: true
---

upgraded VM to 4 cores and 8GB RAM

(also had to increase /tmp folder for pip installation of libretranslate:

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=6G,nr_inodes=10k 0 0)

sudo useradd --create-home --home-dir /var/lib/libretranslate libretranslate

paru -S python-libretranslate-git cmake

sudo su - libretranslate

python -m venv venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip3 install --prefer-binary libretranslate

argospm update

for lang in $(argospm search | grep -E "^translate-.._en.*"| awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs); do echo argospm install translate-${lang}\_en; done

(remove echo from command to finally execute; the command shows a list of install commands)

now edit mastodon conf to use libretranslate

cd /var/lib/mastodon

add to .env.production

ALLOWED_PRIVATE_ADDRESSES=127.0.0.1
LIBRE_TRANSLATE_ENDPOINT=http://127.0.0.1:5000