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Install on CachyOS.

Step-by-step installation guide for CachyOS.

Ilopad for CachyOS is published as a pacman package (.pkg.tar.zst) in the Ilopad repository. Add the repository once and pacman installs it and every later release, the same way it handles the rest of your system.

Add the Ilopad repository

The recommended way. Three commands, and updates arrive on their own afterwards.

1

Trust the signing key

Import the Ilopad key into pacman’s keyring and sign it locally, which is what tells pacman to trust it:

curl -fsSLo /tmp/ilopad.gpg https://dl.ilopad.com/ilopad.gpg sudo pacman-key --add /tmp/ilopad.gpg sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 9B88125FDFB1653D4A6E39EE3A59EC22020F75A0
2

Add the repository

Append the repository to /etc/pacman.conf:

curl -fsSL https://dl.ilopad.com/ilopad-pacman.conf \ | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf
3

Install Ilopad

Refresh the package databases, update the system and install. Press Enter at each question to accept the default:

sudo pacman -Syu ilopad-server
Use -Syu, not -Sy: CachyOS does not support a partial upgrade. If pacman also updates the kernel, restart the computer before you start Ilopad. From now on pacman keeps Ilopad current along with the rest of your system: each new release arrives with sudo pacman -Syu. Every package and every index is signed, and pacman refuses anything that does not verify.
4

Start Ilopad

Launch the server from the terminal, or find Ilopad in your applications menu:

ilopad-server
Ilopad opens its window. When you close the window, Ilopad keeps running in the system tray. On the first start, Ilopad asks for your password to open its network ports (UDP 4444 and 5353) in ufw, the firewall that CachyOS turns on by default. Enter it and click OK. If Ilopad first shows Permission Required, click Allow, enter your password and click OK. The server shows this computer’s name under Server Name, with a green power button beside it while the server is running. Click Add Device to show a pairing code, then scan it with the Ilopad app on your iPhone.

Install a single release by hand

Use this if you would rather not add a repository. It installs one release and nothing more: Ilopad will not update itself, so you repeat these steps for each new version. Prefer to point and click? CachyOS ships Octopi, a graphical package manager. Use its File → Install local package… action. A double-click on the package only opens the archive manager, so install it through Octopi instead.

1

Download the package

This link always points at the newest release:

Download the .pkg.tar.zst

2

Open Octopi and choose Install local package

Launch Octopi from your applications menu. Open the File menu and click Install local package….

Octopi with the File menu open, showing the Install local package option
3

Select the downloaded package

In the file picker, click Downloads and double-click the ilopad-server-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst you downloaded.

The Octopi file picker showing ilopad-server-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst in the Downloads folder
4

Confirm the installation

Octopi lists the package to be installed. Click Yes to continue.

Octopi Confirmation dialog listing ilopad-server-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst with a Yes button
5

Authenticate

Enter your password to authorize the installation, then click OK. Octopi installs the package and reports Command finished OK! when done.

The qt-sudo dialog asking for your password
6

Start Ilopad

Launch Ilopad from your applications menu. It opens its window. On the first start, Ilopad asks for your password to open its network ports (UDP 4444 and 5353) in ufw, the firewall that CachyOS turns on by default. Enter it and click OK. Then click Add Device to pair your iPhone.

The Ilopad window on CachyOS in dark mode, showing the server name, a green power button and the No Devices Paired empty state
The server shows this computer’s name under Server Name, with a green power button beside it while the server is running. If Ilopad first shows Permission Required, click Allow, enter your password and click OK. Then it asks for your password one more time, for the network ports.

Uninstall

To remove Ilopad, with its settings and the permissions that it added, follow Uninstall on CachyOS.