Install on Debian and Ubuntu (apt)
Install ~alter’s L3 sovereign daemon on Debian, Ubuntu, and derivatives (Mint, Pop!_OS, KDE Neon, Devuan, Raspbian) via apt. The package builds from the upstream truealter PyPI sdist using pybuild and registers a systemd user service.
What you get
- •
alter-runtimebinary on$PATH. - •Systemd user unit
alter-runtime.service. - •Default config root at
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alter/and runtime socket at$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/alter-runtime.sock.
Add the apt source
The release apt source will be hosted at releases.truealter.com/apt once the repository is published. When it is live, import the signing key and register the source list:
# Import the release signing key
sudo curl -fsSL https://releases.truealter.com/apt/keyring.gpg \
| sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/truealter-archive-keyring.gpg > /dev/null
# Register the apt source
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/truealter-archive-keyring.gpg] \
https://releases.truealter.com/apt stable main" \
| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/truealter.list > /dev/null
sudo apt updateInstall
sudo apt install alter-runtimeNeed the CLI too? The alter CLI is distributed via npm and works alongside the daemon. See the npm install guide for details.
Start the daemon
systemctl --user enable --now alter-runtime.serviceVerify
alter-runtime --version
systemctl --user status alter-runtime.serviceCross-platform unity
However a person installs alter-runtime, the runtime they get is the same runtime everyone else gets: same socket protocol, same ~handle resolution, same DNS-TXT discovery, same federation endpoints. The full operative invariants are documented in packaging/README.md.