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Version: 0.19.x

Debian Packages Debian / Ubuntu

EveBox provides an Apt repository with Debian packages for Debian/Ubuntu style systems.

Stable Repository​

sudo apt-get install curl
curl -fsSL https://evebox.org/files/GPG-KEY-evebox -o /etc/apt/keyrings/evebox.asc
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/evebox.asc] https://evebox.org/files/debian stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/evebox.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install evebox

Development Builds​

caution

These packages are built directly from the main git branch and break at times. They may also introduce databases changes that break in the case of using an SQL back-end.

sudo apt-get install curl
curl -fsSL https://evebox.org/files/GPG-KEY-evebox -o /etc/apt/keyrings/evebox.asc
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/evebox.asc] https://evebox.org/files/debian unstable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/evebox.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install evebox

Starting and Stopping​

The EveBox Debian/Ubuntu package is configured to start and stop the EveBox Server with systemd.

Starting the EveBox Server​

systemctl start evebox

Stoping the EveBox Server​

systemctl stop evebox

Starting the EveBox Server on Boot​

systemctl enable evebox

Other Notes​

  • Configuration file: /etc/evebox/evebox.yaml
  • Data directory: /var/lib/evebox
  • When started from systemd, the EveBox server will run as the user evebox which has write access to /var/lib/evebox.