punktfunk/packaging/debian

punktfunk-host — Debian/Ubuntu package (apt)

punktfunk-host is published as a .deb to Gitea's Debian package registry in the public unom org, so the Ubuntu hosts update with plain apt. CI (.gitea/workflows/deb.yml) builds and publishes on every push to main (a rolling 0.5.0~ciN.g<sha> build to the canary apt distribution) and on vX.Y.Z tags (a clean X.Y.Z to the stable distribution, plus attached to the unified Gitea Release). The two are separate apt distributions, so a stable box never jumps to a canary build — see Release Channels. The repo line below subscribes to stable; swap stable → canary for the latest main builds.

The same workflow also publishes punktfunk-web (the browser management console — pairing + status) and punktfunk-client (the native GTK4/libadwaita Linux client). punktfunk-host Recommends punktfunk-web, so a default apt install punktfunk-host pulls the console too (alongside the udev/sysctl bits) unless you've disabled weak deps; punktfunk-client is independent — install it on the box you stream to. (punktfunk-probe is the headless reference/test tool, not packaged here.)

Package layout mirrors the Fedora RPM (../rpm/punktfunk.spec): the host binary, the /dev/uinput udev rule, the systemd user unit, headless session helpers, the example config, and the OpenAPI doc. Runtime Depends are computed by dpkg-shlibdeps from the binary itself (built in the Ubuntu 26.04 rust-ci image, so the lib soname package names match the target). The NVIDIA driver (libnvidia-encode / libEGL_nvidia / libcuda) is not a dependency — it's installed out of band, like on the RPM side.

Install on a host (one-time)

The registry is public, so no apt auth is needed — just trust the repo's signing key:

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/debian/repository.key \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/punktfunk.asc >/dev/null

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/punktfunk.asc] https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/debian stable main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/punktfunk.list

sudo apt update
sudo apt install punktfunk-host

Then, as the desktop user:

sudo usermod -aG input "$USER"          # virtual gamepads (re-login to take effect)
mkdir -p ~/.config/punktfunk
cp /usr/share/punktfunk-host/host.env.example ~/.config/punktfunk/host.env   # then edit
systemctl --user enable --now punktfunk-host
# Web console — enable it and read the auto-generated login password (then open https://<host-ip>:47992):
systemctl --user enable --now punktfunk-web
journalctl --user -u punktfunk-web-init | sed -n 's/.*password generated: //p'

Firewall

Debian ships no firewall and Ubuntu's ufw is installed-but-inactive by default, so out of the box there is nothing to open. If you run one, open the ports the host listens on.

If you use firewalld, the punktfunk-host package installs service definitions to /usr/lib/firewalld/services/ (not auto-enabled), so it's one command:

sudo firewall-cmd --reload                                          # load the installed definition
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=punktfunk-native        # the default native host
#                              --add-service=punktfunk-gamestream    # …add for Moonlight compat
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Otherwise open the ports directly. The native punktfunk/1 plane:

• QUIC control plane: UDP 9777 (serve --native-port N to change).
• Data plane: an ephemeral UDP port — negotiated per session, so there is no fixed port to open. For a restrictive firewall you'd need to allow a UDP range (the repo does not pin one).

And the GameStream / Moonlight ports (fixed) — only needed if you run the host with serve --gamestream (opt-in, trusted LAN only); bare serve is native-only and doesn't open these:

Port	Proto	Purpose
47984	TCP	HTTPS nvhttp (paired, mutual-TLS)
47989	TCP	HTTP nvhttp (/serverinfo, /pair PIN flow)
48010	TCP	RTSP handshake
47998–48010	UDP	Video RTP (+ FEC), ENet control (47999), audio (48000)
5353	UDP	mDNS auto-discovery

The mgmt API (TCP 47990) binds to loopback by default — leave it closed unless you move it off loopback with --mgmt-bind IP:PORT (which then requires --mgmt-token).

With ufw:

sudo ufw allow 9777/udp                                 # punktfunk/1 control plane
sudo ufw allow 47984/tcp && sudo ufw allow 47989/tcp && sudo ufw allow 48010/tcp
sudo ufw allow 47998:48010/udp
sudo ufw allow 5353/udp
# plus the ephemeral punktfunk/1 data port — open a UDP range you reserve for it.

With raw nftables (add to your inet filter input chain):

udp dport 9777 accept                  # punktfunk/1 control plane
tcp dport { 47984, 47989, 48010 } accept
udp dport { 47998-48010, 5353 } accept
# plus the ephemeral punktfunk/1 data port (a reserved UDP range).

Updates

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade        # picks up the newest published build
systemctl --user restart punktfunk-host    # if the unit was already running

Build a .deb locally

VERSION=0.0.1 bash packaging/debian/build-deb.sh   # -> dist/punktfunk-host_0.0.1_amd64.deb

Needs dpkg-dev (dpkg-shlibdeps, dpkg-deb). It builds the release binary first if missing. Build it in the rust-ci image (or on an Ubuntu 26.04 box) so the resolved Depends match the hosts; building on a GPU box is fine — the NVIDIA driver lib is filtered out either way.