Updated: 28 September 2026 · Applies to: Redmine 6 with Docker (Ubuntu 24.04)
Ubuntu 18.04 is end of life. Redmine is a free project management and issue tracking application built on Ruby on Rails. The current versions are Redmine 6.x and 7.0. The simplest way to run a current Redmine is the official Docker image with PostgreSQL.
Install Docker Engine (official repository)
Ubuntu 24.04 / Debian 12:
apt install ca-certificates curl install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.sources <<EOF Types: deb URIs: https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu Suites: $(. /etc/os-release && echo "$VERSION_CODENAME") Components: stable Architectures: $(dpkg --print-architecture) Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc EOF apt update apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
On Debian, use https://download.docker.com/linux/debian in both the key URL and URIs.
AlmaLinux 9 / Rocky Linux 9:
dnf install dnf-plugins-core dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/rhel/docker-ce.repo dnf install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin systemctl enable --now docker
Test with docker run hello-world. Compose is available as docker compose.
Run Redmine
Create /opt/redmine/compose.yaml:
services:
db:
image: postgres:17
environment:
POSTGRES_DB: redmine
POSTGRES_USER: redmine
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: Strong-Password
volumes: [db-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data]
restart: unless-stopped
redmine:
image: redmine:6
depends_on: [db]
environment:
REDMINE_DB_POSTGRES: db
REDMINE_DB_USERNAME: redmine
REDMINE_DB_PASSWORD: Strong-Password
REDMINE_DB_DATABASE: redmine
volumes: [files:/usr/src/redmine/files]
ports: ["127.0.0.1:3000:3000"]
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
db-data:
files:
cd /opt/redmine && docker compose up -d
Put Nginx with HTTPS in front of port 3000, then log in with admin / admin and change the password at once.
Without Docker
Ubuntu 24.04 also has a redmine package (an older 5.x version). For a manual installation of the latest version you need Ruby 3.2 to 3.4, Bundler and a database; the main steps are bundle config set --local without 'development test', bundle install, bundle exec rake generate_secret_token, RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake db:migrate and RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake redmine:load_default_data.
