APT Packages for Debian and Ubuntu

The primary distribution packages for OpenTofu are .zip archives containing single executable files that you can extract anywhere on your system. However, for easier integration with configuration management tools and other systematic system configuration strategies, we also offer package repositories for Debian and Ubuntu systems, which allow you to install OpenTofu using the apt install command or any other APT frontend.

If you are instead using Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, or Fedora, you might prefer to install OpenTofu from our Yum repositories.

Repository Configuration​

Please follow the instructions in the Official Packaging Guide.

Supported Architectures​

The OpenTofu APT server has packages only for the amd64 architecture, which is also sometimes known as x86_64.

There are no official packages available for other architectures, such as arm64. If you wish to use OpenTofu on a non-amd64 system, download a normal release .zip file instead.

Installing a Specific Version of OpenTofu​

The OpenTofu APT repositories contain multiple versions of OpenTofu, but because the packages are all named tofu it is impossible to install more than one version at a time, and apt install will default to selecting the latest version.

It's often necessary to match your OpenTofu version with what a particular configuration is currently expecting. You can use the following command to see which versions are currently available in the repository index:

apt policy tofu

If your workflow requires using multiple versions of OpenTofu at the same time, for example when working through a gradual upgrade where not all of your configurations are upgraded yet, we recommend that you use the official release .zip files instead of the APT packages, so you can install multiple versions at once and then select which to use for each command you run.

All published packages include a revision number by default, starting with -1. This change means that in the case that we need to publish an updated package for any reason, installers can automatically retrieve the latest revision.

You can install the latest revision for a particular version by including the version in the apt install command, as follows:

sudo apt install tofu=1.4.4-*