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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)
applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse,
install, and keep track of updates on your device.
F-Droid Server
==============
Server for [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org), the Free Software repository system
for Android.
The F-Droid server tools provide various scripts and tools that are used to
maintain the main F-Droid application repository. You can use these same tools
to create your own additional or alternative repository for publishing, or to
assist in creating, testing and submitting metadata to the main repository.
maintain the main [F-Droid application repository](https://f-droid.org/repository/browse).
You can use these same tools to create your own additional or alternative
repository for publishing, or to assist in creating, testing and submitting
metadata to the main repository.
For documentation, please see the docs directory.
Alternatively, visit [https://f-droid.org/manual/](https://f-droid.org/manual/)
Alternatively, visit [https://f-droid.org/manual/](https://f-droid.org/manual/).
What is F-Droid?
----------------
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)
applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse,
install, and keep track of updates on your device.
Installing
----------
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The easiest way to install the `fdroidserver` tools is on Ubuntu, Mint or other
Ubuntu based distributions, you can install using:
sudo apt-get install fdroidserver
```
sudo apt-get install fdroidserver
```
For older Ubuntu releases or to get the latest version, you can get
`fdroidserver` from the Guardian Project PPA (the signing key
fingerprint is `6B80 A842 07B3 0AC9 DEE2 35FE F50E ADDD 2234 F563`)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guardianproject/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fdroidserver
```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guardianproject/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fdroidserver
```
On OSX, `fdroidserver` is available from third party package managers,
like Homebrew, MacPorts, and Fink:
sudo brew install fdroidserver
```
sudo brew install fdroidserver
```
For Arch-Linux is a package in the AUR available. If you have installed
`yaourt` or something similiar, you can do:
```
yaourt -S fdroidserver
```
For any platform where Python's `easy_install` is an option (e.g. OSX
or Cygwin, you can use it:
sudo easy_install fdroidserver
```
sudo easy_install fdroidserver
```
Python's `pip` also works:
sudo pip install fdroidserver
```
sudo pip install fdroidserver
```
The combination of `virtualenv` and `pip` is great for testing out the
latest versions of `fdroidserver`. Using `pip`, `fdroidserver` can
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For Debian based distributions:
apt-get install python-dev python-pip python-virtualenv
```
apt-get install python-dev python-pip python-virtualenv
```
Then here's how to install:
git clone https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver.git
cd fdroidserver
virtualenv env/
source env/bin/activate
pip install -e .
python2 setup.py install
```
git clone https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidserver.git
cd fdroidserver
virtualenv env/
source env/bin/activate
pip install -e .
python2 setup.py install
```