Debian 11 & 12

• Dependency Installation
  • Installing Composer
  • Download Files

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This guide is based off the official installation documentation but is tailored specifically for Debian 11 and 12.

Dependency Installation

In this guide, we will install the required dependencies for the Pterodactyl panel. After that, you can follow the official installation documentation.

# Update  package lists
apt update -y

# Install necessary packages
apt -y install software-properties-common curl ca-certificates gnupg2 sudo lsb-release

# Add repository for PHP
echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sury-php.list

curl -fsSL https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/sury-keyring.gpg

# Add repository for Redis
curl -fsSL https://packages.redis.io/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.redis.io/deb $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/redis.list

# Update  package lists
apt update -y

# Install PHP and required extensions
apt install -y php8.1 php8.1-{common,cli,gd,mysql,mbstring,bcmath,xml,fpm,curl,zip}

# MariaDB repo setup script
curl -sS https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb_repo_setup | sudo bash

# Install the rest of dependencies
apt install -y mariadb-server nginx tar unzip git redis-server

Installing Composer

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP that allows us to ship everything you'll need code wise to operate the Panel. You'll need composer installed before continuing in this process.

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

Download Files

Great, now all of the dependencies have been dealt with. Continue the installation by following the official documentation Download Files section.