Gallery app parallelly with Photos app in NC19 snap installation

[lundaweb]

Geez, finally did it.

Maybe this doesn’t deserve a new thread, but the procedure in a Snap installation of NC19 is quite different than the usual way.

I use webmin to administer my server, an Ubuntu 18.04. While installing, I chose to add the Nextcloud Snap.

By using both the File Manager and Command Shell I manged to install and activate the “old” Gallery app. First I had to realize that the snap version of Nextcloud has a writeable folder for downloaded apps in /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/extra-apps by noticing the apps I installed previously, which were not “built-in”. The apps folder in the htdocs is read-only in a snap installation, so the usual instructions were not applicable.

Downloaded the Source code tar.gz to my laptop from https://github.com/pandorra2/gallery/releases/tag/quickfix2 and uploaded it to a newly created folder gallery in /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/extra-apps/, then decompressed it, moved files and folders from gallery-quickfix2 folder up to the gallery folder using the File Explorer and then, in command shell, ran
cd /snap/nextcloud
sudo nextcloud.occ app:enable gallery

and behold: the gallery app icon now shows up besides the photos app icon, and the “old” gallery app works.

Got help by reading:
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/snap-installation-change-php-apache-and-nextcloud-configs/32858/2

[Discussion] New Photo App in Nextcloud 18

Hi together. The “old” gallery app is running on my NC 18 What i did: cd /var/www/nextcloud/apps git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/gallery.git cd gallery/js/vendor/dompurify/src wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cure53/DOMPurify/1.0.11/dist/purify.js -O purify.js sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ app:enable gallery After that the gallery is working. No cache cleaning or “occ maintenance:repair” Edit: It takes 2-4 seconds before the main gallery view is shown.…

https://help.nextcloud.com/t/new-photo-app-in-nextcloud-18/69949/59

Maybe this experience could help somebody else!
Cheers

[pandorra]

there’s no need for “fancy” shell commands, you could have the quickfix installed as a regular app
though max version is 20 atm

[Discussion] New Photo App in Nextcloud 18

Hi! The new Photo App (Gallery) is very bad… I have 20.000 Photos and 1000 Folders… When I open the Photo app, it shows me 20000 Photos without any possibility to sort them. When I look for the last photo (date), I must scroll down the whole day… And the worst is, that when I click on “Your Albums” it looks like my whole Apache crashes. After 10 Minutes it shows me all my 1000 Folders in color gray…and 10 Minutes later with thumbnails… Is there any possibility to fix it, short the photos …

[Discussion] New Photo App in Nextcloud 18

didn’t know about all the mess here, until i wanted to show some vacation pics today. took me half an hour figuring out what happened and finding this thread here… how comes this simple thing isn’t fixed yet? come on guys. dev’s duck and covered…? so, being somewhat more productive - indeed the old gallery works perfectly with just one simple .js fixed. also no need for any terminal or script at all. just forked the gallery-master with couple of clicks: download, rename (gallery), upload, ac…

[lundaweb]

After automatic upgrade to Netxtcloud 21.0.1 I had to rerun

cd /var/snap/nextcloud/
sudo nextcloud.occ app:enable gallery
gallery 18.5.0 enabled

• and the gallery app works again, on 21.0.1. I prefer the old gallery app for several reasons.