LangTechDepot

Linux: four steps

Do them in order. Nothing here needs sudo, and nothing is left half-installed if you stop partway — you can pick up again at any point.

  1. Step 1Get your token
  2. Step 2Open a terminal
  3. Step 3Paste the command
  4. Step 4Pick your folders
1

Get your token

Fill in the short form on our server. A token comes back — a long password that works once, on this one computer.

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Get my token Opens depot.langtech.cloud. The token page there has a Copy button and a link straight back to step 2.
2

Open a terminal

On most desktops that is Ctrl+Alt+T, or search the applications menu for Terminal.

Terminal $
3

Paste this command, press Enter

It downloads the installer and runs it. When it asks for your token, paste that in too and press Enter.

curl -fsSL https://sillsdev.github.io/langtechdepot/downloads/install-langtechdepot.sh -o install-langtechdepot.sh && bash install-langtechdepot.sh
Installing Syncthing... done Starting service... done Paste your token: a3f9c1e0-84bb-4c...
Needs on the machine: curl, tar, python3, and a systemd user session — which is the normal setup on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Mint. No sudo, and nothing is installed system-wide.
4

Pick the folders you want

A web page opens at 127.0.0.1:8384. Within a minute or two the offers appear at the top — one for each part of the library. Click Add on the ones you want and ignore the rest. Files arrive under ~/LangTechDepot.

NEW FOLDERS OFFERED TO THIS DEVICE Documentation Guides and setup notes Android_apps Apps for phones and tablets Add Add
What the names look like: each offer is named for the part of the library it carries. The Linux parts have not been moved across yet, so for the moment the only two offers that are any use on Linux are Android_apps (apps to copy onto a phone or tablet) and Documentation. The others you will see hold Windows installers.
Seeing only a few? The library is still being moved onto this system a folder at a time, so not all of it is on offer yet. You do not need to register again or do anything else — new folders appear in this list by themselves as they arrive.

That is the whole setup. Syncthing starts with your session from now on and keeps those folders current by itself. The folders only ever receive — nothing on your machine is sent anywhere.

Setting up a second machine? Start again at step 1: each machine needs its own token.
Stuck? The help page covers what usually goes wrong. If the terminal showed an error, copy that text — it is what lets us fix things quickly.

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