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--- hints:rpki [2025/10/17 07:55] – [FORT] philip
+++ hints:rpki [2025/10/21 23:41] (current) – [RPKI-client] philip
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 **rpki-client** is just a validator - it does not have the functionality to accept connections from a router. We'll come to that later on (we'll need to use [[rpki#stayrtr|StayRTR]], which is a fork of Cloudflare's now unmaintained GoRTR).
-**rpki-client** has now been packaged and is available as part of the Ubuntu 22.04 distribution. However, the packaged version is old (version 7.6). At the time of writing, the current release of **rpki-client** is version 8.7.
+**rpki-client** has now been packaged and is available across most mainstream Linux/Unix-based platforms. Including as part of the Ubuntu 22.04 and later distributions. However, the packaged version in Ubuntu is old (version 7.6 on 22.04, 9.0 on 24.04). At the time of writing, the current release of **rpki-client** is version 9.6. There is a version of **rpki-client** on the Ubuntu Snap Store, but it is unclear which version of **rpki-client** this is.
+So to stay up to date on Ubuntu, we have to build it ourselves. A pity that the **rpki-client** maintainers don't build their own deb package, or pre-build packages like NLnetLabs do with Routinator, given that Ubuntu maintainers seem to be unable to keep the software current. Oh well.
-So for this reason, and to stay up to date, at least on Ubuntu, we have to build it ourselves. A pity that the **rpki-client** maintainers don't build their own deb package, or pre-build packages like NLnetLabs do with Routinator. Oh well.
 ==== Initial Preparation ====