Building from source

monbooru is a Go program. From a checkout of the repository:

# without the auto-tagger
go build -o monbooru ./cmd/monbooru

# with the auto-tagger (needs cgo and the ONNX Runtime library)
CGO_ENABLED=1 go build -tags tagger -o monbooru ./cmd/monbooru

# with the Linux tray icon (needs GTK 3 and libayatana-appindicator)
CGO_ENABLED=1 go build -tags tray -o monbooru ./cmd/monbooru

./monbooru -config /path/to/monbooru.toml

With no config file, the first run writes monbooru.toml in the working directory (or wherever -config points), with its data and gallery folders next to it. Edit the paths there if you want them somewhere else; the keys are on Configuration.

A -tags tagger build needs the ONNX Runtime library at run time: libonnxruntime.so on the library path, or ORT_LIB_PATH pointing at it. See Auto-tagger: GPU and models. Video, AVIF and JPEG XL thumbnails need ffmpeg and ffprobe on the PATH.