Installation

Official

Flathub

You can find the latest stable version of Alpaca on Flathub.

Make sure you have Flathub added as a Flatpak repository before continuing.

Simply install from your system's graphical software store like Gnome Software or Discover.

If you prefer to use a terminal to install Flatpak applications, you can use the following command:

flatpak install flathub com.jeffser.Alpaca

Snap

Alpaca is not currently distributed in the Snap Store but a Snap package is distributed.

First download the package from the releases page, then install the package using this command:

sudo snap install ./{package name} --dangerous

The --dangerous option is used because the package is not associated with the Snap Store, Alpaca's Snap sandbox is still present.

MacOS (Experimental)

Please read this page, it's dedicated to the MacOS version of Alpaca.

Unofficial

This packages are not maintain by me, of course, Alpaca is open source and welcomes repackaging when possible but I'm not responsible for the integrity of the packages.

Arch Linux AUR

Warning

Alpaca is not sandboxed in this installation method, any commands ran with the integrated code runner will run in the host.

Before installing any package from the AUR (Arch User Repository) you first need to install an AUR helper, in this case let's use yay.

sudo pacman -S --needed git base-devel
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git
cd yay
makepkg -si

Now that yay is installed you have this new command to install both AUR and Arch Official packages, simply replace sudo pacman with just the command yay.

To install Alpaca use the following command:

yay -S alpaca-ai

Nix

Warning

Alpaca is not sandboxed in this installation method, any commands ran with the integrated code runner will run in the host.

You can use Nixpak or Firejail to sandbox Alpaca, though this is not necessary if you are sure of what you will be running.

Alpaca is also available in Nixpks. See package info for installation instructions.