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Immich•10mo ago•
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Failure to install with docker compose

Setup (Docker compose install https://immich.app/docs/install/docker-compose)
mkdir ./immich-app && cd ./immich-app
mkdir ./immich-app && cd ./immich-app

wget -O docker-compose.yml https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml
wget -O docker-compose.yml https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml

wget -O .env https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/example.env
wget -O .env https://github.com/immich-app/immich/releases/latest/download/example.env

docker compose up -d
docker compose up -d



Output:
[+] Running 3/4
 ✔ Container immich_redis             Running                                    0.0s 
 ✔ Container immich_postgres          Running                                    0.0s 
 ✔ Container immich_machine_learning  Run...                                     0.0s 
 ⠋ Container immich_server            Starting                                   0.1s 
Error response from daemon: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: error mounting "/etc/localtime" to rootfs at "/etc/localtime": create mountpoint for /etc/localtime mount: cannot create subdirectories in "/var/lib/docker/overlay2/3a60c668100ae6c759fb6f6adb99b548779defe3a6a5af28381db93285a81703/merged/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC": not a directory: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type
[+] Running 3/4
 ✔ Container immich_redis             Running                                    0.0s 
 ✔ Container immich_postgres          Running                                    0.0s 
 ✔ Container immich_machine_learning  Run...                                     0.0s 
 ⠋ Container immich_server            Starting                                   0.1s 
Error response from daemon: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: runc create failed: unable to start container process: error during container init: error mounting "/etc/localtime" to rootfs at "/etc/localtime": create mountpoint for /etc/localtime mount: cannot create subdirectories in "/var/lib/docker/overlay2/3a60c668100ae6c759fb6f6adb99b548779defe3a6a5af28381db93285a81703/merged/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC": not a directory: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type


Is there a known solution for this? The install instructions seem straight forward, am I doing something wrong?
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