Installing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, CentOS and similar

These instructions apply to any RPM-based distribution with systemd.

RPM binary packages exist to simplify the installation of Yggdrasil. These will also work on any other RPM-based distribution.

Package install from the S3 repository

To start with, import the repository key to your gpg keyring and export it to your rpm keyring:

gpg --fetch-keys https://neilalexander.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/deb/key.txt
gpg --armor --no-comment --export-options export-minimal --export 569130E8CA20FBC4CB3FDE555898470A764B32C9 | sudo tee /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-yggdrasil

Add the repository:

sudo cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/yggdrasil.repo << EOF
[yggdrasil]
name = Yggdrasil
baseurl = https://neilalexander.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/rpm/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-yggdrasil
EOF

Create the yggdrasil group on your system:

sudo groupadd --system yggdrasil

Install Yggdrasil:

sudo dnf install yggdrasil

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

One-off package install from CircleCI

Visit our Builds page and download the relevant .rpm file, then install it on your system:

sudo groupadd --system yggdrasil
sudo rpm -i yggdrasil...rpm

Configuration will be generated automatically into /etc/yggdrasil.conf when the package is installed, and the Yggdrasil service will automatically be installed into systemd and started.

Making configuration changes

Modify the /etc/yggdrasil.conf file and then either reload the config:

systemctl reload yggdrasil

… or restart the Yggdrasil daemon altogether:

systemctl restart yggdrasil

After installation

Read the Linux platform page page for further information about Linux platform support.