Install Estonian eID on Debian sid & PikaOS

With some popular Linux distributions recently updating their long-term-support releases eID functionality is broken once again until Estonian authorities catch up to release their drivers. Although Debian sid and PikaOS (being a derivate of it) will probably never be officially supported, setting it up is actually a pretty quick and easy process if you follow … Read more

Estonian eID installation on Debian bullseye

If you are an Estonian ID-card holder or e-resident, wanting to install open-eID on Debian’s latest release bullseye or one of its derivates, this is how you do it! Generally, Estonian RIA-authority is doing a good job supporting ID authentification to the Linux community, yet only Ubuntu is officially supported, which is a pity since … Read more

My custom ppa repository

Some of the software I use frequently do not receive automatic updates via the operating system’s package management because no repository was previously available for them. Since I want to automate updates across a range of different devices, I am using the option of creating a so-called private repository (ppa). First and foremost, it serves … Read more

Estonian open-eid installation on Debian bookworm

Since release of Debian stable release codenamed “bookworm” up until today the distribution is not officially supported by the Estonian governments official installation script of their mandatory digital ID software. You would think Debian’s usually longer release cylce would make it easier to catch up with software releases, but here we go again. Fortunately, installation … Read more