# Run Mealie - Recipe Tracker and Meal Planner - in Docker

## What is Mealie?

> Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor. -https://github.com/hay-kot/mealie/

## Installing Docker

1. Log into the Linux based device
2. Run the following commands in the terminal
   # install prerequisites
   sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common gnupg-agent -y
   # add docker gpg key
   curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release)/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
   # add docker software repository
   sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture)] https://download.docker.com/linux/$(awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release) $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
   # install docker
   sudo apt install docker-ce docker-compose containerd.io -y
   # enable and start docker service
   sudo systemctl enable docker && sudo systemctl start docker
   # add the current user to the docker group
   sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
   # reauthenticate for the new group membership to take effect
   su - $USER

## Running Mealie

1. Continue following commands in a terminal window
   # create working directories
   mkdir ~/docker/mealie -p
   # set owner of docker directory
   sudo chown "$USER":"$USER" ~/docker -R
   # run mealie container
   docker run -d --name=mealie -v ~/docker/mealie:/app/data/ -p 9925:80 --restart=unless-stopped hkotel/mealie
2. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:9925
3. Login with the username changeme@email.com and password MyPassword
4. Click the admin username in the left navigation menu
5. Update the Username, Full Name and Email as needed > Click Update
6. Click the Change Password button
7. Enter the Current Password (MyPassword), enter and confirm a new password > Click Change Password
8. Log out and log back in using the updated username and password
9. Welcome to Mealie

Documentation: https://hay-kot.github.io/mealie/documentation/getting-started/install/