Installing on Debian, Ubuntu, elementaryOS, Linux Mint and similar
These instructions apply to any Debian-based distribution with systemd.
Yggdrasil is supported on Debian Linux. Debian binary packages exist to simplify the installation of Yggdrasil. These will also work on any Debian-based distribution, e.g. elementaryOS.
One-off installation
Debian packages are built and are available in the GitHub Releases.
Install the package using dpkg -i filename.deb.
Package install from your distribution
Some Debian-based distributions may have an yggdrasil-go package available in
their repositories:
sudo apt-get install yggdrasil
Package install from the S3 repository
On some platforms, e.g. Raspberry Pi, you may need to start by installing
dirmngr if it is not already available:
sudo apt-get install dirmngr
Then import the repository key to your gpg keyring and export it to your
apt keyring:
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/apt-keys
gpg --fetch-keys https://neilalexander.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/deb/key.txt
gpg --export BC1BF63BD10B8F1A | sudo tee /usr/local/apt-keys/yggdrasil-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
Add the repository into your apt sources:
echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/local/apt-keys/yggdrasil-keyring.gpg] http://neilalexander.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/deb/ debian yggdrasil' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yggdrasil.list
sudo apt-get update
Note: The repository also works over HTTPS - you will need to sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https and then edit the above URL so that it starts with https:// instead of http:// in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yggdrasil.list.
Install Yggdrasil:
sudo apt-get install yggdrasil
After installation
Configuration will be generated automatically into /etc/yggdrasil.conf when
the package is installed, and the Yggdrasil service will automatically be
installed into systemd.
Enable and start the service after install/upgrade:
sudo systemctl enable yggdrasil
sudo systemctl start yggdrasil
To make configuration changes, modify the /etc/yggdrasil.conf file and then restart the Yggdrasil daemon:
systemctl restart yggdrasil
Read the Linux platform page page for further information about Linux platform support.