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Install on openSUSE.

Step-by-step installation guide for openSUSE.

Ilopad for openSUSE is published as an RPM package (.rpm) in the Ilopad repository. Add the repository once and zypper 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

Add the repository

Fetch the repository definition. It carries the address of the signing key, so there is nothing else to set up:

sudo curl -fsSLo /etc/zypp/repos.d/ilopad.repo \ https://dl.ilopad.com/ilopad.repo
2

Install Ilopad

Refresh and install. On the first run zypper shows you the signing key’s fingerprint and asks you to trust it. Make sure that the fingerprint is 9B88 125F DFB1 653D 4A6E 39EE 3A59 EC22 020F 75A0, then answer a to trust it always:

sudo zypper refresh sudo zypper install ilopad-server
From now on zypper keeps Ilopad current along with the rest of your system: each new release arrives with sudo zypper update. Every package and every index is signed, and zypper refuses anything that does not verify.
3

Start Ilopad

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

ilopad-server
4

Give Ilopad access to input

The first time, Ilopad shows Permission Required: it makes a virtual mouse, keyboard and pen, and for this it needs access to the input device. Click Allow, enter your password and click Authenticate.

Ilopad window titled Permission Required, with an Allow button
5

Pair your iPhone

The Ilopad window opens. The package already opened its network ports (UDP 4444 and 5353) in the firewall, so Ilopad does not ask for your password again.

The Ilopad window on openSUSE 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. Click Add Device, give the device a name, then click Generate QR. Scan the code with the Ilopad app on your iPhone to connect.

Installing graphically

On openSUSE, a double-click on a downloaded .rpm file does not install it. On the Xfce desktop the package opens in the Archive Manager, which only lets you browse or extract the file.

Download the .rpm

Double-clicking the Ilopad .rpm opens the Archive Manager, which only extracts the file instead of installing it

Use the repository steps above to install Ilopad. If you would rather install one release by hand, download the package, then import the signing key and install the package from a terminal. Without the key, zypper stops with Signature verification failed. Ilopad will not update itself that way. Then start Ilopad as in steps 3 to 5 above.

sudo rpm --import https://dl.ilopad.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-ilopad sudo zypper install ~/Downloads/ilopad-server.x86_64.rpm

Uninstall

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