Getting Started

This documentation intends to explain how to get penpot application and run it locally.

The simplest approach is using docker and docker-compose.

Install Docker

Skip this section if you alreasdy have docker installed, up and running.

You can install docker and its dependencies from your distribution repositores with:

sudo apt-get install docker docker-compose

Or follow installation instructions from docker.com; (for debian https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/debian/).

Ensure that the docker is started and optionally enable it to start with the system:

sudo systemctl start docker
sudo systemctl enable docker

And finally, add your user to the docker group:

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

This will make use the docker without sudo command all the time.

NOTE: probably you will need to relogin again to make this change take effect.

You can create it from scratch or take a base from the penpot repository

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/penpot/penpot/develop/docker/images/docker-compose.yaml

And then:

docker-compose -p penpotest -f docker-compose.yaml up