Installation guides

This section describes how to install OST on an Ubuntu machine.

OST is distributed as .deb packages for Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy), 24.04 (Noble) and 26.04 (Resolute).

• Quick install (Ubuntu Resolute)

  The fastest way to get OST running: one fresh Ubuntu 26.04 machine, one script

• Quick install (Arch Linux)

  The fastest way to get OST running on Arch Linux: one script

• Quick install (Fedora)

  The fastest way to get OST running on Fedora: one script

• Installation from .deb packages

  Full procedure on Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04 / 26.04 LTS using GitLab .deb packages

• Installing from the Ubuntu PPA (Launchpad)

  Full procedure on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS using the official PPA repository

• Managing the ostserver service

  Start, stop, and customize the startup options of the ostserver service