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Help building LibreTranslate with models: Build fails with timeout error

calendar_today July 13, 2026 person Samapol domain libre-translate

Update : See second post first, might have solved a lot already. Hi everyone, I’m trying to build LibreTranslate with specific models preloaded for offline use but keep hitting a build timeout error. Here’s what I’ve done so far: Attempted the official guide : The build command from the Github’s LibreTranslate CONTRIBUTING.md help file, but fails with: ERROR: docker: ‘docker buildx build’ requires 1 argument After researching, I used docker buildx but the build times out during the model installation step: docker buildx build -f docker/Dockerfile \ –build-arg with_models=true \ -t libretransl

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