Installation of plugins docker

[martin323232]

Trying to install Brother plugin.
inventree-brother-plugin is inside plugins.txt file

In terminal: docker-compose run inventree-server invoke install

Tried installing from docker terminal after installing pip.

How do you install from from webpage, "Install Plugin"?

[matmair]

@martin323232 there should appear a modal where you can add the package to your instance if you click install plugin. You need superuser privileges for that. Also, you might want to activate the plugin functions - they appear to be off from your screenshot.

Plugins get discovered on server start so maybe also try to restart the server (it should be enough to restart the docker-container for the webserver). Note that plugins are off by default when discovered.

[SchrodingersGat]

When you install via the web interface (i.e. the "Install Plugin" button) can you confirm that the plugin is entered into your plugins.txt file (in the external docker directory)?

[martin323232]

No, it is not entered into plugins.txt, it remains empty with only "# InvenTree Plugins (uses PIP framework to install)"

[SchrodingersGat]

I would think that this suggests that the external volume is not being mounted as you might expect. Can you try running the command as listed here: inventree/inventree-docs#390

Sequence of commands is:

docker compose down
docker volume -d inventree-production_inventree_data
docker compose up -d

Then try the plugin sequence again. let me know if this works out for you

[martin323232]

inven@inven:/Downloads/InvenTree-master/docker/production$ sudo docker compose down
[sudo] password for inven:
[+] Running 5/5
⠿ Container inventree-worker Removed 0.0s
⠿ Container inventree-proxy Removed 0.0s
⠿ Container inventree-server Removed 0.0s
⠿ Container inventree-db Removed 0.0s
⠿ Network inventree-production_default Removed 0.1s
inven@inven:/Downloads/InvenTree-master/docker/production$ sudo docker volume -d inventree-production_inventree_data
unknown shorthand flag: 'd' in -d
See 'docker volume --help'.

Usage: docker volume COMMAND

Manage volumes

Commands:
create Create a volume
inspect Display detailed information on one or more volumes
ls List volumes
prune Remove all unused local volumes
rm Remove one or more volumes

Run 'docker volume COMMAND --help' for more information on a command.

inven@inven:~/Downloads/InvenTree-master/docker/production$

[SchrodingersGat]

Try docker volume rm -f inventree-production_inventree_data instead?

[martin323232]

That gave another error. Should I do a reinstall and try without using docker?
There is something strange with docker desktop, I've set it to use desktop-linux but containers are not shown in Docker desktop application.

docker volume rm -f inventree-production_inventree_data
Error response from daemon: remove inventree-production_inventree_data: volume is in use - [466a2d959ad4f343031ba5480851d42f1b42a1943a1c84997787e2b779839183, d177217019613c90cb34f24e73a25c7a10c9f342cc7094d3a16b4c0b6f4e13e2, 2b128fe0a62506863db14010c4ada3927eaa62e469da6c182170a01876ba9480, a8450941752b2a7ba98cb91fb3ec9e109fdc84ff80812e9400c1c8be06dcd032, d7f3b73c21acdcdd2d1ef0b1f68c29460a612536c78f99bfed60e1f57d6d87f5, 35834cd39cc4585de4afa7a3ce57e04ceb5a59d9f833b0a1a9d0925fc29a4b67, 7b9a47c4f4681aa03346666f53734707a8e35e3410629def47b3af6bf21a4980, adbb8d1b3fdfb009aa40c316fa03ad739d0c3e307f37a458622f1f866f8ebdb3, a3e32f264cb92aca4d97d5044075e067b9447436c72853c33da91a3cd9ee66c0]

[matmair]

@SchrodingersGat should we move this to on y default with docker?

[SchrodingersGat]

@matmair good idea. I'm currently updating the docs, but "default on" in docker mode would be a good move

[SchrodingersGat]

I'll submit a PR for this shortly

[martin323232]

It's working now, thanks for your help

[SchrodingersGat]

@martin323232 thanks for letting us know. Got there in the end :) The documentation now covers this much more clearly!