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Getting started with NextCloud? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've tried NextCloud before and didn't really love it and I'm now happy with a combination of syncthing and LibreOffice. But my wife wants the full google drive, with sheets, docs etc. without the google, and I think NextCloud is my best option for that.

I'm and experienced *nix admin and already have a Linux server running with both VMs and docker containers and also have a working OpenVPN setup for remote access. But I found the NextCloud setup frustrating. We had a discussion about it (here I think) and determined that this was because NextCloud would rather sell their hosted service, so they don't go out of their way to make the self hosted option easy. I get that and don't hold it against them at all.

But, now that I'm wanting to try it again, I'm looking for pointers to guides for setting up self hosted NextCloud. I've searched, but nothing I found seemed like "the one".

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[–] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Nextcloud has worked wonderfully for pretty much everything except for the office suite, which almost never works, I've heard AIO runs it fine. I've just had more useful luck with collabora on my phone and libreoffice on desktop that I'm not willing to fuss about to try and get it to work for the fifth time just for it to break again.

As for installation, I went the nextcloudpi route on a normal PC and haven't really had any issues that weren't my own fault. The biggest struggle I had was figuring out what packages I needed to install on a minimal Debian install before I could successfully run the installer.

I did spin up a nextcloudpi lxc container on proxmox since I'm expecting to containerize it in the future and it just started up perfectly along with the normal office suite issues.

[–] Luckyfriend222@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Install and run EuroOffice. Integrates with Nextcloud. Based off OnlyOffice. Works really well.

[–] Lazarus@mastodon.xyz 1 points 1 hour ago

@Luckyfriend222 @cenzorrll Is Euro Office ready and officially released now or still in semi-beta state ? Do you know of any simple tutorial to hook it up to an existing nextcloud stack ?