How to install Sovereign on NixOS

Sovereign is an easy-to-deploy digital infrastructure platform that can host email, web, and other services for you and your team. It's free and open source, and you can install it on your NixOS machine to manage and control your digital infrastructure.

Requirements

• NixOS latest version installed
• Root access to your NixOS machine
• Git installed

Steps

1. Login to the root user account of your NixOS machine.

2. Install Git, if it's not already installed on your machine.

   $ nix-env -i git
   

3. Clone the Sovereign repository from GitHub using Git.

   $ git clone https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign.git
   

4. Change to the Sovereign directory.

   $ cd sovereign/
   

5. Run the installation script. This will set up Sovereign on your NixOS machine.

   $ sudo ./setup.sh
   

6. Follow the prompts in the setup script to configure Sovereign to your preferences.

   $ sudo ./setup.sh
   
   # Example configuration prompts
   - What subdomain to use? (e.g. 'example' of https://example.maildomain.com): example
   - What's your first and last name? John Doe
   - What's your email address [email protected]
   - OpenSSL private key already exists, would you like to remove it? [y/n]: y
   ...
   

7. Once the installation is complete, you can check the status of Sovereign with the following command.

   $ sudo sovereign status
   

Congratulations, you've successfully installed and configured Sovereign on your NixOS machine. You can now use Sovereign to manage and control your digital infrastructure.