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SimpleSwitch™ for Ubuntu

Configure the PPA

It is possible to deploy SimpleSwitch™ applications on Ubuntu 22.04. In order to do that, you have to install the necessary tools on Ubuntu 22.04. These tools are available thanks to a PPA. So first of all download the SimpleSwitch™ GPG public key and install it on your system:

$ wget https://avnet-embedded.github.io/simpleswitch-ppa/simpleswitch-ppa-key.asc
$ sudo gpg --dearmor --output /usr/share/keyrings/simpleswitch-archive-keyring.gpg simpleswitch-ppa-key.asc
$ rm simpleswitch-ppa-key.asc

Then it is about adding the SimpleSwitch™ PPA in the list of known PPA:

$ echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/simpleswitch-archive-keyring.gpg] https://avnet-embedded.github.io/simpleswitch-ppa jammy non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/simpleswitch.list

Finally you can update the list of available packages and found the SimpleSwitch™ ones:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt search simpleswitch

Installation

In order to have a full installation you need simpleswitch-mqtt-daemon which depends on almost every over SimpleSwitch™ Debian packages, and simpleswitch-dns-sd. So, just launch the command:

$ sudo apt install simpleswitch-mqtt-daemon simpleswitch-dns-sd

Then you can install the Linux app of SimpleSwitch™-launcher. This graphical app will make you able to browse easily in the SimpleSwitch™ packages available on the registry.

Usage

Now you should be able to use simpleswitch-helper commands and container-helper commands.

Note

The service are run as root user. It means that some commands, mainly the container-helper ones and the skopeo login should be run using sudo.