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Install the latest release with a single command, then sign in to master control. For development, build from source.

One-line install#

On a Linux (x86-64) host with systemd, run the installer as root. It downloads the latest release, verifies its SHA-256 against the mirror, installs the binary to /etc/kratos/bin/kratos, writes a starter config, and enables a kratos.service unit.

$curl -fsSL https://updates.kratosott.com/install.sh | sudo sh

When it finishes, the panel is listening on :18080. On first start KRATOS creates the admin account and prints a generated password — read it from the service log:

shell

journalctl -u kratos | grep -i password

The installer binds the panel to 0.0.0.0:18080 over plain HTTP by default. For anything public, put it behind a TLS reverse proxy and restrict the bind to 127.0.0.1 — see Deployment.

Command-line flags#

Flag	Default	Description
`-c <path>`	`kratos.cfg`	Config file
`-p <port>`	`18080`	Listen on 0.0.0.0:<port>
`-b <addr:port>`	`0.0.0.0:18080`	Full bind address
`-providers <dir>`	`providers`	Directory of *.cfg provider files
`-epgport <port>`	`0 (off)`	Public XMLTV EPG listener

Values set in kratos.cfg → Rs (Bind, ProvidersPath, EpgPort) take precedence over the CLI.