Installing Prosody

Installing Prosody is quite straightforward in most cases. We have packages for the major operating systems to make it even easier. If we have no package for yours, you should be able to install using the source package, see below.

After downloading the package file, simply double-click on it to perform the installation.

For those using the command line, simply:

 sudo dpkg -i prosody_0.6.1-1_i386.deb
 sudo apt-get install -f

On Windows simply choose to run, or double-click the downloaded installer. Follow the instructions that appear on-screen.

Assuming you have MacPorts, you can grab Prosody's dependencies with:

 sudo port install lua lua-luasocket lua-luasec lua-luaexpat

This is only needed when you plan to build prosody from source. If you just want to use it you can download the disk image from the download section.

Detailed information on installing Prosody on Arch can be found on the ArchWiki.

We have a separate short guide on installing from source which should give some help with getting Prosody built on most systems.

Also note that if you build from source you will also need to install Prosody's runtime dependencies manually.

Let us know how you get on!