Install “Lomorage Photo Assistant” on Rocky Linux 9 #

Currently we only support x86/AMD64 Rocky Linux 9 (and RHEL/AlmaLinux 9, which share the same package format).

1. Enable EPEL and RPM Fusion #

perl-Image-ExifTool needs EPEL, and ffmpeg (needed for video processing) needs RPM Fusion – neither is in the base repos:

sudo dnf install epel-release -y
sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-9.noarch.rpm -y

2. Add lomoware source #

sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/lomoware.repo > /dev/null <<'EOF'
[lomoware-rocky9]
name=Lomoware Rocky Linux 9 Repository
baseurl=https://lomoware.lomorage.com/rpm/rocky9
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://lomoware.lomorage.com/rpm/rocky9/repodata/repomd.xml.key
EOF

3. Install Lomorage #

Unlike Fedora, Rocky 9’s base repos don’t have vips at all, so lomo-vips (built from source) is required here, same as Debian/Ubuntu.

sudo dnf install lomo-vips lomo-backend -y

Make sure the user can sudo without password, if not, execute the following command to add it:

echo "$USER ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" | sudo tee /etc/sudoers.d/$USER

4. Configuration parameter customization #

User can use environment variable in “/opt/lomorage/etc/environment” to control configuration parameter as below. You can change based on your own setup.

4.1 Change mount directory #

You may need to specify the mount directory if the USB drive is not mounted in “/media” directory.

To specify the mount directory to be “/media/pi”, add environment variable LOMOD_MOUNT_DIR=/media/pi in /opt/lomorage/etc/environment, such as

echo "LOMOD_MOUNT_DIR=/media/pi" | tee -a /opt/lomorage/etc/environment

this parameter should be the directory mount, not the sub-directory

Make sure the user has the r/w permission for above mount directory, this parameter should be the parent directory mounted, for example if it’s mounted as “/media/pi/disk0”, then you should use “/media/pi/”.

4.2 HTTP Listen Port #

Lomod listens on port 8000 by default. If it is conflict and you want to specify own listen port, you can add environment variable LOMOD_PORT_HTTP in /opt/lomorage/etc/environment. For example,

echo "LOMOD_PORT_HTTP=8888" | tee -a /opt/lomorage/etc/environment

Another option is cp /lib/systemd/system/lomod.service /etc/systemd/system/lomod.service and then edit “/etc/systemd/system/lomod.service” and change “ExecStart” directly to specify the parameters used (run /opt/lomorage/bin/lomod -h to check the parameters), and run sudo systemctl daemon-reload, then it will use “/etc/systemd/system/lomod.service” instead. “/lib/systemd/system/lomod.service” is expected to be overwritten when upgrade.

5. Run #

Restart “Lomorage Photo Assistant”:

sudo systemctl restart lomod