Installing TuxRun via Debian packages

TuxRun provides Debian packages that have minimal dependencies, and should work on any Debian or Debian-based (Ubuntu, etc) system. TuxRun depends on TuxLAVA, hence TuxLAVA repositories should be explicitly added to install TuxRun.

1) Download the repository signing key for TuxLAVA and save it to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/tuxlava.gpg, since TuxRun depends on TuxLAVA.

sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/tuxlava.gpg https://tuxlava.org/packages/signing-key.gpg

2) Create apt sources list for tuxlava packages:

echo "deb https://tuxlava.org/packages/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tuxlava.list

3) Download the repository signing key for TuxRun and save it to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/tuxrun.gpg.

sudo wget -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/tuxrun.gpg https://tuxrun.org/packages/signing-key.gpg

4) Create apt sources list for tuxrun packages:

echo "deb https://tuxrun.org/packages/ ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tuxrun.list

5) Install tuxrun as you would any other package:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tuxrun

Upgrading tuxrun will work just like it would for any other package (apt update, apt upgrade).

Install using Debian extrepo

extrepo is a tool that helps configuring external repositories on Debian in a secure manner. As a pre-requisite for installation using this method, extrepo should be installed in your Debian machine.

1) Install extrepo if it is not installed previously:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install extrepo

2) Enable the tuxrun and tuxlava repositories with extrepo, since tuxrun depends on tuxlava:

sudo extrepo enable tuxlava
sudo extrepo enable tuxrun

3) Install tuxrun as you would any other package:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install tuxrun

If the URL or the GPG key has changed, once updated in the extrepo-data repository, it can be easily updated with:

sudo extrepo update tuxrun