Debian Packages in Ubuntu PPA

[twdragon]

The unofficial Debian packages for XRay Core, XRay Examples as shared knowledge base, and automatically updated GeoIP database by LoyalSoldier are available in the dedicated Ubuntu PPA, also together with the packages for GoXRay GUI and CLI clients for Linux. The repository publishes auto-updated packages on a weekly update basis. All the source packages are built automatically on GitHub Action CI agent servers, and the dedicated build scenarios are all totally open-sourced in the dedicated CI repository.

The Debian package repository is hosted on Ubuntu Launchpad with all its isolated autobuild environment features. It utilises Golang Backports, the independent Golang packaging pipeline by Simon Eisenmann to build the binaries. It supplies the following package names:

• xray-server - the kernel package, provides the XRay Core server of the latest version available, together with the ready-to-use systemd maintenance infrastructure.
• xray-examples - the set of configuration examples, provided as is from the official repository, installed into /usr/share/xray XDG directory.
• xray-geoip - the GeoIP database for XRay geographic routing rules. The files are installed and updates within /usr/share/xray/geeoip.
• goxray-gui, goxray-cli - the packages containing software clients compatible with XRay.

Installation from PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:twdragon/xray
sudo apt update
sudo apt install xray-server

or, on an older Ubuntu:

# Change UBUNTU_CODENAME accordingly
# Add the corresponding Ubuntu GPG signing key to your keyring:
# https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?fingerprint=on&op=index&search=0xC8F2828A240FDFC55B8CAE25E2F2445F17F6E584
sudo UBUNTU_CODENAME="focal" echo -e "deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/twdragon/xray/ubuntu ${UBUNTU_CODENAME} main\ndeb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/twdragon/xray/ubuntu ${UBUNTU_CODENAME} main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xray.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install xray-server

Distro Compatibility

Although the repositories are built and hosted over the Ubuntu infrastructure, xray-server, xray-examples, and xray-geoip packages could be installed freely on the generic Debian Linux distribution of the same binary architecture, as the server itself is a statically linked standalone executable. The packages' control sequences intentionally don't mention the systemd package, so it should be possible to install them on Debian. The compatibility of the goxray-* packages was not tested, and it is impossible to ensure it, as they depend on the external Ubuntu runtime libraries.

Feedback and improvements are encouraged!