# Ignition 8.1.x running on Linux

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**Created:** [March 31, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-1-x-running-on-linux/88125 "2024-03-31T17:15:56Z")\
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Heh. Welcome to the club. I've been running Ignition on Linux for a very long time. How about this from almost fourteen years ago:

> [@Gentoo Linux ebuilds for 7.1.1 and 7.1.2](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gentoo-linux-ebuilds-for-7-1-1-and-7-1-2/1916):
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> I spent a good part of the day integrating Ignition into a portage overlay. Gentoo uses OpenRC for its initscripts, so the Ubuntu style scripts in the download aren’t compatible. Gentoo also strongly discourages embedding extra copies of system libraries, so the ebuild filters out the private copies of tomcat and javamail, and specifies the dependencies instead. The 7.1.1 ebuild is marked stable for x86 and amd64, while the 7.1.2 ebuild is marked unstable (~x86 and ~amd64). Note, the stable …

I haven't run gentoo for several years now, but you get the idea. 😁

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