Help in installation about conceptarium

[paulbricman]

Thanks for the interest, @Nomad-of-Ouroboros! I think the easiest way to get it up and running is to:

1. Install Docker on the host, following the instructions on the Docker website, or just Googling your way through ("install docker on windows tutorial"). Docker is a utility which knows how to run self-contained environments (i.e. a bundle of an operating system, some requirements, and the conceptarium) so that you don't have to worry about recreating that environment manually. You just run this predefined image which contains everything necessary in a sort of sandbox.
2. Run the conceptarium using docker run -p 8000:8000 paulbricman/conceptarium in your terminal/console/command line. After seeing that there's no such conceptarium bundle on your host, it will fetch it from the internet first. There might also be a way of doing this through the GUI on Docker Desktop, though I'm not familiar with it.

The good news is that I have plans for hosting all conceptarium-related tools (ideoscope, the upcoming lexiscore, and future ones, though not the conceptarium itself) for free on the internet so that you don't have to also install them locally if you don't want to. You'd just go to a public URL and enter the URL of your conceptarium, but for the conceptarium itself I haven't come up with a free way of hosting such a service.

Hope this helps and let me know if you run into any other issues!

[Nomad-of-Ouroboros]

Thank you for the help. This made me curious about some things: -

1. What type of tool is the conceptarium (specifically whether it is like Obsidian or Notion, which has an app that I click and it opens? Or is it opened using Docker? Do I need internet connectivity for using it?
2. Where is the data stored?
3. Did you suggest using a salvaged desktop in case any unexpected errors arise? It seems intuitive to use it on my daily driver since that device will be with me always.
4. Can I open conceptarium on my phone or ipad, after installing it on a laptop/desktop using Docker?

[paulbricman]

Good questions all of them, @Nomad-of-Ouroboros.

1. The conceptarium is a web server which, when run on a host, serves a few web pages which help you interact with it. This means that if configured properly, you can access your conceptarium from any device with a browser. I mainly access mine from my laptop while at home and from my phone while on the go.
2. The data is stored locally on the host where the web server is being run.
3. Deploying the conceptarium on a salvaged desktop might actually be a good idea, because if configured properly, you can access it from anywhere in the world, just as a normal website.
4. Yes, through its address.

A couple more notes. In order to make it possible to access the conceptarium from anywhere in the world after running the docker thing, you have to do one more thing: running [ngrok[(https://ngrok.com/), as mentioned in the README. This utility creates a tunnel from your computer to the broader internet through a website address which it generates randomly for you, and you just use that on your devices.

I think some screenshots of the webpages both from desktop and mobile can be found in the screencasts here: https://paulbricman.com/reflections/early-conceptarium-workflows.

Thanks again for the interest and let me know if you run into further issues.

[Nomad-of-Ouroboros]

Hi again @paulbricman, I finally got the chance to install the application and I reached this stage. How do I proceed?

[paulbricman]

Congrats, you're so close!

Try a few of the following:

• 127.0.0.1:8000/find/lang/form
• 127.0.0.1:8000/save/lang/form
• 127.0.0.1:8000/find/imag/form
• 127.0.0.1:8000/save/imag/form
• 127.0.0.1:8000/docs (for a list of every path)

[paulbricman]

New installation now with the rework, so closing this.