• The Kanidm PPA repository contains Debian & Ubuntu packages built from the main Kanidm repository.

• Two separate components are available, stable for released versions and nightly which only provides the latest bleeding edge, refreshed once a day.

• Packages are distributed for current LTS versions of Debian & Ubuntu that natively package the required dependencies;

  • Ubuntu: 22.04 aka jammy & 24.04 aka noble.
  • Debian 12 aka bookworm.

• Please note that while the spirit of the commands below should also work on other Debian-based distributions, the codename detection will not work and you will need to manually choose which distribution is the closest to yours. The methods for adding repositories may also vary, for example Pop OS, requires an altered setup in line with their instructions.

Make sure you have a “trusted GPG” directory for storing signing keys.

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/

Download the Kanidm PPA GPG public key.

curl -s "https://kanidm.github.io/kanidm_ppa/kanidm_ppa.asc" \
    | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/kanidm_ppa.asc >/dev/null

Add the Kanidm PPA to your local APT configuration, with autodetection of Ubuntu vs. Debian. Please adjust accordingly if you want the nightly component instead of the default stable.

curl -s "https://kanidm.github.io/kanidm_ppa/kanidm_ppa.list" \
    | grep $( ( . /etc/os-release && echo $VERSION_CODENAME) ) | grep stable \
    | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kanidm_ppa.list

Update your local package cache.

sudo apt update

Use apt search to list the packages available:

apt search kanidm

If you previously had the alpha version kanidm nightly packages installed or are switching from nightly down to stable, it may be difficult to remove the previous versions safely without losing for example Kanidm backed sudo in the middle. This snippet is intended to help with that:

sudo bash <<EOT
dpkg --remove kanidm kanidm-unixd libnss-kanidm libpam-kanidm
apt install -y kanidm kanidm-unixd
EOT

If anything goes wrong during the snippet, you may need to fall back to other methods of gaining root to complete the transition!