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Install on CachyOS.

Step-by-step installation guide for CachyOS.

Tiny Pad for CachyOS is published as a pacman package (.pkg.tar.zst) in the Tiny Pad repository. Add the repository once and pacman installs it and every later release, the same way it handles the rest of your system.

Add the Tiny Pad repository

The recommended way. Three commands, and updates arrive on their own afterwards.

1

Trust the signing key

Import the Tiny Pad key into pacman’s keyring and sign it locally, which is what tells pacman to trust it:

curl -fsSLo /tmp/tinypad.gpg https://dl.tiny-pad.com/tinypad.gpg sudo pacman-key --add /tmp/tinypad.gpg sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 9B88125FDFB1653D4A6E39EE3A59EC22020F75A0
2

Add the repository

Append the repository to /etc/pacman.conf:

curl -fsSL https://dl.tiny-pad.com/tinypad-pacman.conf \ | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf
3

Install Tiny Pad

Refresh the package databases and install:

sudo pacman -Sy tinypad-server
From now on pacman keeps Tiny Pad current along with the rest of your system: each new release arrives with sudo pacman -Syu. Every package and every index is signed, and pacman refuses anything that does not verify.
4

Start Tiny Pad

Launch the server from the terminal, or find Tiny Pad Server in your applications menu:

tinypad-server
The server shows this computer’s name under Server Name, with a green power button beside it while the server is running. Click Add Device to show a pairing code, then scan it with the Tiny Pad app on your iPhone. On the first launch it asks for permission to create virtual input devices. Approve it to finish setup.

Install a single release by hand

Use this if you would rather not add a repository. It installs one release and nothing more: Tiny Pad will not update itself, so you repeat these steps for each new version. Prefer to point and click? CachyOS ships Octopi, a graphical package manager. Use its File → Install local package… action. Double-clicking the package only opens the archive manager, so install it through Octopi instead.

1

Download the package

This link always points at the newest release:

Download the .pkg.tar.zst

2

Open Octopi and choose Install local package

Launch Octopi from your applications menu. Open the File menu and click Install local package….

Octopi with the File menu open, showing the Install local package option
3

Select the downloaded package

In the file picker, go to your Downloads folder and double-click the Tiny Pad .pkg.tar.zst you downloaded.

Octopi file picker showing the tinypad-server package in the Downloads folder
4

Confirm the installation

Octopi lists the package to be installed. Click Yes to continue.

Octopi confirmation dialog listing the tinypad-server package with a Yes button
5

Authenticate

Enter your password to authorize the installation, then click OK. Octopi installs the package and reports Command finished OK! when done.

Authentication dialog asking for a password to install the package
6

Start Tiny Pad

Launch Tiny Pad Server from your applications menu. Click Add Device to pair your iPhone.

Tiny Pad Server showing the server name, a green power button and the No Devices Paired empty state
The server shows this computer’s name under Server Name, with a green power button beside it while the server is running. On the first launch it asks for permission to create virtual input devices. Approve it to continue.