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Installing on Debian Based Distributions
Debian 11 (“bullseye”) and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (“Jammy Jellyfish”) are only supported with OTP releases. For installing OTP releases on these distributions, please follow this guide.
Debian 12 (“bookworm”), Ubuntu 23.04 (“Lunar Lobster”) and later are supported with both OTP releases and from-source installations. For a from-source installation on Debian 12 and later, please follow this guide.
OTP releases are as close as you can get to binary releases with Erlang/Elixir. The release is self-contained, and provides everything needed to boot it, it is easily administered via the provided shell script to open up a remote console, start/stop/restart the release, start in the background, send remote commands, and more.
From-source installation is not supported for distributions before Debian 12 and Ubuntu 23.04, as they do not ship with Elixir 1.14+, required by Akkoma and its dependencies. Debian 11 only officially provides Elixir 1.10 (released January 2020), and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS only officially provides Elixir 1.12 (released May 2021). Well-known and trusted third-party repositories, like the Erlang Solutions repository, do not currently provide Elixir 1.14+ either.
If you are migrating a from-source installation, please follow this guide to migrate to an OTP installation.
Further reading
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