Install Pelican on Debian or Ubuntu

This document explains how to install Pelican on a Debian or Ubuntu Linux operating system.

Install Pelican DEB

You can install Pelican by downloading a .deb package or by downloading a binary .tar.gz file. You only need to follow one section below to install.

Install the Pelican using a DEB pacakge

Navigate to Pelican download page and select the Pelican DEB you want to install.
In Operating System section, select Linux. In Architectures section, select AMD64 (Intel/AMD) or ARM64 (ARM) depending on the architecture of your machine.
In the list of download candidates, copy the link to pelican-x.x.x-1_arm64.deb if you select ARM64 (ARM), or pelican-x.x.x-1.amd64.deb if you select AMD64 (Intel/AMD). Where x.x.x is the version number.
Change the following command with the link to the binary you copied in the previous step and run the command
```
wget <replace-with-the-link-you-copied>
sudo dpkg -i pelican_7.5.8-1_arm64.deb
```
Note that you need to replace pelican_7.5.8-1_arm64.deb with pelican_7.5.8-1_amd64.deb if you are running an Intel/AMD machine.

Example to install Pelican v7.5.8 DEB package for an Intel/AMD machine:
```
wget https://github.com/PelicanPlatform/pelican/releases/download/v7.5.8/pelican_7.5.8-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i pelican_7.5.8-1_amd64.deb
```

Install Pelican as a standalone binary

Refer to the previous section on how to install Pelican as a standalone binary.

Uninstall on Debian or Ubuntu

To uninstall Pelican, run the following command

sudo apt-get remove pelican

Verify Pelican is installed

Refer to the previous section on how to verify that Pelican is successfully installed.

Next steps

If you want to use Pelican client to download or upload files, refer to Client Usage to get started. If you want to serve a Pelican server, refer to Serve a Pelican Origin and Serve a Pelican Federation.

CentOS, Fedora, or openSUSE Alpine Linux