Requirements¶

Linux — Arch, Debian/Ubuntu, or Fedora-based
Podman — rootless, with systemd user session active
NetworkManager — for .test DNS
systemctl --user functional — run loginctl enable-linger $USER if needed

Linger must be enabled

If systemctl --user units do not survive logout, run:

loginctl enable-linger $USER

This is required for Podman Quadlet containers to start automatically and persist across sessions.

unzip — used during install to extract fnm
certutil / nss-tools — for mkcert to install the CA into Chrome/Firefox
- Arch: nss
- Debian/Ubuntu: libnss3-tools
- Fedora: nss-tools

Go is only needed to build from source

The released binary is fully static with no runtime dependencies. You do not need Go installed to use Lerd.