# Debian / Ubuntu packages available
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708
**Category:** Announce
**Created:** [May 11, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708 "2015-05-11T20:22:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/1 "2015-05-11T20:22:56Z")
I’ve enabled building of Debian packages, for both release and dev builds:
- [http://apt.syncthing.net](http://apt.syncthing.net)
Feel free to consider this slightly experimental for the moment, and report any issues. I expect the packages to work on any recent Debian or Ubuntu (same as the regular builds from Github). This should obsolete the various PPA:s floating around.
There are builds for amd64, i386 and arm.
This is a fairly spartan package at the moment - the main binary, and some README files and similar. If you have ideas about what should be included in terms of startup scripts etc, do chime in.
The current release build is a specially named `v0.11.3-debian` because I had to backport the Debian specific build stuff and retag; in the future these will be named as usual (without `-debian` suffix).
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### Author:  [@xHN35RQ](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/xHN35RQ)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2015, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/2 "2015-05-12T04:35:09Z")
Should the user disable auto-updates in the GUI if you have apt repos instead? If yes should that be noted on the apt page?
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2015, 5:47am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/3 "2015-05-12T05:47:22Z")
No, automatic upgrades are disabled at compilation time for these packages, so the code is not even in there. I don’t think the checkbox shows up in the GUI.
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### Author:  [@xHN35RQ](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/xHN35RQ)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/4 "2015-05-12T05:49:11Z")
Ok, I see. I guess I was thinking about someone currently using the raw binary from Github, if they want to make the transition. But in that case it would be a matter of removing the local binary and pointing any scripts to the apt-installed binary. So my question isn’t really a question 😃
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@wweich](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/wweich)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/5 "2015-05-12T17:43:54Z")
Thanks for the PPA.
I would really like the possibility to specify different named configs which have daemon user and group and home dir specified.
BTSync had a [community contributed PPA](http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/18974-debian-and-ubuntu-server-unofficial-packages-for-bittorrent-sync/) where one would place conf files in /etc/btsync and the startup script would start the different instances. One could also start/stop single instances with the init script. If you had e.g. `main.conf` and `share.conf`, you could stop the share instance with `service btsync stop share`.
Currently I have the syncthing command inside `crontab` (`@reboot`) for each user/instance, which works solid so far. As syncthing updates itself and has its own monitor I don’t really see the need _(for me)_ for daemonizing it without additional functionality/centralizing “instance management”.
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### Author:  [@zombied](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/zombied)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/6 "2015-05-12T19:28:29Z")
I’m not a big linuxoid but syncthing+runit suit me more than fine so I don’t need no scripts and stuff so far. After I have configured everything and self-update feature the whole idea of repository seems a bit excessive to me but its just my humble opinion.
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### Author:  [@techtonik](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/techtonik)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2015, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/7 "2015-05-15T06:39:36Z")
Do you use something like [http://openbuildservice.org/](http://openbuildservice.org/) ?
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### Author:  [@theincogtion](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/theincogtion)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/8 "2015-05-18T20:35:35Z")
I just made a video about it:
> [@Videos about Syncthing](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/videos-about-syncthing/2767/4):
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### Author:  [@asdil12](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/asdil12)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2015, 12:50pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/9 "2015-05-21T12:50:23Z")
I’m getting this error when running `aptitude update`:
```
W: Failed to fetch gzip:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/apt.syncthing.net_dists_syncthing_release_binary-amd64_Packages: Hash Sum mismatch
```
When I use `apt-get update` it works.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2015, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/10 "2015-05-21T13:01:29Z")
[Looks like](https://www.google.se/search?q=aptitude+hash+sum+mismatch) you have old or broken package lists laying around, and apt-get may already have solved the problem?
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### Author:  [@chris42](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/chris42)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/11 "2015-05-25T13:21:14Z")
Would love to see init.d scripts included in the package. I have been using the script from the top of [Keeping Syncthing Running: Systemd & regular /etc/init.d](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/keeping-syncthing-running-systemd-regular-etc-init-d/402) which seems to be working well, although I would probably move the line `syncthing_USERS=""` to /etc/syncthing or /etc/default/syncthing
It’s working well regardless, thanks for your hard work!
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/12 "2015-06-23T19:47:47Z")
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2015, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/debian-ubuntu-packages-available/2708/13 "2015-06-23T19:47:53Z")