Installing the Smallstep App on Linux

Debian Package

• Download the flatpak from our downloads page

• Install the Smallstep App Debian Package

  Aptitude
  sudo apt-get install [path_to_deb_package]
  
  dpkg
  dpkg -r smallstep-desktop

  In order to successfully detect your device's TPM, you need to be in the tss group
  • Check if you're a member of the tss group

    getent group tss

  • Add a user to the tss group and reboot the machine.

    sudo usermod -a -G tss [username]

Uninstalling Debian Package

Aptitude

sudo apt-get remove smallstep-desktop

dpkg

sudo dpkg -r smallstep-desktop

Flatpak

• Download the flatpak from our downloads page.
• As a local user, either click on the flatpak package to install it or run

  flatpak install [path_to_flatpak]

• In order to successfully detect your device's TPM, you need to be in the TSS group
  • Check if you're a member of the tss group

    getent group tss

  • Add a user to the tss group

    sudo usermod -a -G tss [username]

• Launch the Smallstep App directly from the CLI. It can be set to auto-start on login
  

  /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.smallstep.Smallstep/current/active/files/bin/smallstep &

Uninstalling Flatpak

Flatpak uninstalls need to be done from the command line

flatpak remove smallstep