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.
- Step 1Get your token
- Step 2Open a terminal
- Step 3Paste the command
- 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.
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.
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
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.
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.