Install listmonk on Debian

Table of Contents

import PasswordCodeBlock from ‘../../src/components/PasswordCodeBlock’; import CodeBlock from ‘@theme/CodeBlock’;

User and group #

Create the user and the group for listmonk:

adduser --system --group --shell="/sbin/nologin" --home="/var/lib/listmonk" listmonk

PostgreSQL #

Install Postgre:

apt install postgresql

Setup the DB:

sudo -u postgres psql

CREATE DATABASE listmonk;

<PasswordCodeBlock language=“sql” numSymbols={0} tokens={[ {name: “SECURE_PASSWORD”}]} > {CREATE USER listmonk WITH ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'SECURE_PASSWORD';}

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE listmonk TO listmonk;

Binary #

Download the latest binary from Github:

wget 'https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/releases/download/v3.0.0/listmonk_3.0.0_checksums.txt'

wget 'https://github.com/knadh/listmonk/releases/download/v3.0.0/listmonk_3.0.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz'

Check the checksum:

sha256sum -c listmonk_3.0.0_checksums.txt

Extract the binary from the downloaded archive:

tar -xvf listmonk_3.0.0_linux_amd64.tar.gz

Install the binary:

sudo install -v listmonk /usr/local/bin/

Config #

Create a directory to store the config file:

mkdir /etc/listmonk

listmonk --new-config

listmonk --install

Move the config file and fill in the credentials:

mv config.toml /etc/listmonk/

chown -R listmonk:listmonk /etc/listmonk/

Systemd #

Create the service:

nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/listmonk.service

[Unit]
Description=listmonk
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
AssertFileIsExecutable=/usr/local/bin/listmonk

[Service]
User=listmonk
Group=listmonk

Restart=always
RestartSec=10

ExecStart=listmonk --config /etc/listmonk/config.toml

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

systemctl daemon-reload

systemctl enable --now listmonk.service