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Installation

Nathan Price edited this page Apr 27, 2026 · 1 revision

NOTE: If you build your own kernels, ckb-next requires the uinput flag to be enabled. If you don't know what this means, you can safely ignore this. It is located under Device Drivers -> Input Device Support -> Miscellaneous devices -> User level driver support.

Recommended packages

The packages below that aren't clickable can be installed by simply searching for them in your preferred "Software Centre" / "App Store" or by using your package manager (e.g. apt, pacman, dnf) from the terminal.

Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Pop!_OS / Derivatives:

Arch Linux / Manjaro / Derivatives:

  • ckb-next - based on latest release
  • aur/ckb-next-git - based on the master branch

Fedora / Derivatives:

  • ckb-next - based on latest release

Void Linux:

  • ckb-next - based on the latest release

Solus

  • ckb - based on the latest release

Gentoo

  • ckb - based on the latest release

Alpine Linux

  • Add testing/ tree to the apk repository list (if not already)
  • Install the package
apk add ckb-next ckb-next-daemon
  • start and enable the openrc service
rc-service ckb-next-daemon start && \
rc-update add ckb-next-daemon

Building from source

If your distribution isn't listed above, or you want to build from source (or rebuild an AUR package), see Packaging.

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