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Install on Manjaro.

Step-by-step installation guide for Manjaro.

Tiny Pad for Manjaro 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
Open Tiny Pad and click Add Device to show a pairing code, then scan it with the Tiny Pad app on your iPhone. On the very first launch, Tiny Pad 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? Manjaro’s Add/Remove Software (Pamac) opens a downloaded package directly. No extra tools to install.

1

Download the package

This link always points at the newest release:

Download the .pkg.tar.zst

2

Find the downloaded package

Open Files and go to your Downloads folder. You should see the Tiny Pad .pkg.tar.zst you downloaded.

The Tiny Pad .pkg.tar.zst package shown in the Dolphin file manager Downloads folder
3

Open it and click Apply

Double-click the package. It opens in Add/Remove Software and lists Tiny Pad under To install. Click Apply.

Pamac Transaction Summary showing tinypad-server under To install with an Apply button
4

Authenticate

Enter your password to authorize the installation, then click OK.

Authentication Required dialog asking for a password to install packages
5

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.