Installing Himmelblau

Overview

Himmelblau is packaged for a wide range of Linux distributions and supports multiple installation methods, including .deb and .rpm packages, container builds, and manual source compilation.

This page covers how to install Himmelblau on Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Rocky, SUSE, and other distributions.

Supported Distributions

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Installation from Prebuilt Packages

Download the packages for your distribution, and install them using your flavor of package manager:

Debian & Ubuntu

  1. Download the .deb packages.

  2. Install:

sudo apt install -y ./himmelblau_<version>-<distro>_amd64.deb ./himmelblau-sshd-config_<version>-<distro>_amd64.deb ./himmelblau-sso_<version>-<distro>_amd64.deb ./nss-himmelblau_<version>-<distro>_amd64.deb ./pam-himmelblau_<version>-<distro>_amd64.deb ./himmelblau-qr-greeter_<version>-<distro>_amd64.deb

Optional Debian repositories

You can optionally install the latest package from the Himmelblau debian repositories, as described on the downloads page.

RHEL, Rocky, Fedora

  1. Download the .rpm packages.

  2. Install:

sudo rpm --import https://himmelblau-idm.org/himmelblau.asc
sudo dnf install ./himmelblau-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm ./himmelblau-sshd-config-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm ./himmelblau-sso-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm ./nss-himmelblau-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm ./pam-himmelblau-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm ./himmelblau-qr-greeter-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm

SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) / openSUSE

  1. Download the .rpm packages.

  2. Install:

sudo rpm --import https://himmelblau-idm.org/himmelblau.asc
sudo zypper install ./himmelblau-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm ./himmelblau-sshd-config-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm ./himmelblau-sso-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm ./nss-himmelblau-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm ./pam-himmelblau-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm ./himmelblau-qr-greeter-<version>-1.x86_64-<distro>.rpm

From Source

If you prefer to build Himmelblau from source, you can use the provided Makefile to produce native packages for your target distribution.

Steps:

  1. Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/himmelblau-idm/himmelblau
cd himmelblau
  1. Build packages for your distro:
make ubuntu24.04         # Replace with your target distro

Available distro targets:

ubuntu22.04  ubuntu24.04  debian12
rocky8       rocky9       rocky10
sle15sp6     sle15sp7     tumbleweed
fedora41     fedora42     rawhide
  1. Find the resulting .deb or .rpm packages in:
./packages/

You can then install the generated package as normal using your system's package manager (e.g., dpkg, dnf, or zypper).

💡 This method ensures proper packaging with dependencies and systemd service files — ideal for testing or contributing to Himmelblau.