Manual installation

1. Navigate to a directory where you wish the daemon to be installed in.
2. Generate a Java keystore using the following command:

keytool -genkey -alias gamedash-daemon \
    -keyalg RSA -keystore ./keystore.jks \
    -dname "CN=gamedash.daemon" \
    -storepass *PASSWORD*

3. Download the GameDash Daemon wrapper from [https://download.gamedash/daemon/wrapper/versions/latest.jar](https://download.gamedash/daemon/wrapper/versions/latest.jar).
4. Execute the latest.jar jar file with the -install-only command line parameter.
5. You'll now be asked a few questions concerning the setup
6. Start the daemon using java -jar latest.jar.

Executing as a service on Linux

Executing the daemon as a service in recommended, as the Linux OS will make sure to start the daemon back up after a reboot and any eventual crashes.

1. Create /etc/systemd/system/gamedash-daemon.service with the following contents:

[Unit]
Description=GameDash Daemon
[Service]
User=root
WorkingDirectory=*INSTALL DIRECTORY*
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar *INSTALL DIRECTORY*/latest.jar
SuccessExitStatus=143
TimeoutStopSec=10
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

2. Execute chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/gamedash-daemon.service.
3. Reload the systemd daemon by executing systemctl daemon-reload
4. Star the service by executing systemctl start gamedash-daemon