2.2. Ubuntu Packages¶
There are ready made packages for Ubuntu.
A repository provides packages for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, 24.04 LTS and 26.04 LTS.
Note
The packages privacyidea-apache2 and privacyidea-nginx assume
that you want to run a privacyIDEA system. These packages deactivate all
other (default) websites. Instead, you may install only the package
privacyidea, which contains the privacyIDEA application without any
webserver or database configuration. After this, you can integrate
privacyIDEA with your existing webserver configuration.
Read about the upgrading process in Upgrading a packaged installation.
2.2.1. Installing privacyIDEA¶
Before installing privacyIDEA you need to add the package repository to the package manager.
2.2.1.1. Add repository¶
The packages are digitally signed. First you need to download the signing key:
wget https://lancelot.netknights.it/NetKnights-Release.asc
Then you can verify the fingerprint:
gpg --import --import-options show-only --with-fingerprint NetKnights-Release.asc
The output must show the key NetKnights GmbH <release@netknights.it> with
this fingerprint:
pub rsa4096 2017-05-16 [SC]
0940 4ABB EDB3 586D EDE4 AD22 00F7 0D62 AE25 0082
uid NetKnights GmbH <release@netknights.it>
sub rsa4096 2017-05-16 [E]
Other GnuPG versions arrange the output differently, but the fingerprint must be the same.
Now you can add the signing key to your system:
mv NetKnights-Release.asc /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/
Now you need to add the repository for your release (either jammy/22.04 LTS,
noble/24.04 LTS or resolute/26.04 LTS).
You can do this by running the following command on Ubuntu 24.04:
add-apt-repository http://lancelot.netknights.it/community/noble/stable
Change the code name to the running Ubuntu version accordingly.
As an alternative you can add the repo in a dedicated file. Create a new
file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/privacyidea-community.list with the
following contents for Ubuntu 24.04:
deb http://lancelot.netknights.it/community/noble/stable noble main
Change the code name to the running Ubuntu version accordingly.
2.2.1.2. Installation of privacyIDEA¶
After having added the repositories, run:
apt update
apt install privacyidea-apache2
If you do not like the Apache2 webserver you could
alternatively use the meta package privacyidea-nginx.
Both packages also install the cron jobs that clean up the database, see Cleanup Jobs.
Now you may proceed to First Steps.
2.2.2. FreeRADIUS¶
privacyIDEA has a perl module to “translate” RADIUS requests to the API of the privacyIDEA server. This module plugs into FreeRADIUS. The FreeRADIUS does not have to run on the same machine as privacyIDEA. To install this module run:
apt-get install privacyidea-radius
The package enables its own FreeRADIUS site privacyidea and the module
perl-privacyidea. It disables all other enabled sites and the eap
module, so install it on a FreeRADIUS server that serves nothing else.
The privacyidea-radius package is available for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 24.04 LTS.
For further details see RADIUS plugin.
