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## OTP releases vs from-source installations

There are two ways to install Akkoma. You can use OTP releases or do a from-source installation. 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. With from source installations you install Akkoma from source, meaning you have to install certain dependencies like Erlang+Elixir and compile Akkoma yourself.
Make the OPT recomendation clearer AFAIK OTP releases are the recomended way of installing, but * People seem unaware of that and use from source installations because they use the guide with the name of their distro * People don't know what OTP releases are or what it means I added a warning on all installation-from-source guides and added the same explanation on the two OTP pages (the miigration to OTP and installing OTP) 2021-08-10 06:09:31 +00:00			`## OTP releases vs from-source installations`

Update install docs (#38) Reviewed-on: https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/pulls/38 Co-authored-by: norm <normandy@biribiri.dev> Co-committed-by: norm <normandy@biribiri.dev> 2022-07-02 21:00:01 +00:00			There are two ways to install Akkoma. You can use OTP releases or do a from-source installation. 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. With from source installations you install Akkoma from source, meaning you have to install certain dependencies like Erlang+Elixir and compile Akkoma yourself.