Hi @GaryAitken
We have instructions in our tutorials. Please see:
From there, I would suggest that unless you have a compelling reason for a full installation, you might find the Docker version of Galaxy much easier to install and to get running and to keep running. Be sure to follow the README guide since many of the operations are partially done and what you’ll be doing is editing a configuration file, not setting it up (as in the full install).
This is a recent QA where the initial installation wasn’t into the correct default .venv environment (part of what I suspect your issue is?). The steps to get that very first part done correctly were covered and might help you as well (unless you do the Docker above, which I am strongly recommending!). Galaxy 25_0 on GCE, Microarray Tissue Analysis tutorial, ImageJ installation - #15 by GaryAitken
Hope this helps! 