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I wish there was a simple guide somewhere to install Riot on a Rpi so that I could try it out.

You can download freedombox and put it on an rpi to get matrix-synapse on it. Took me an hour to get a Matrix server running which then you can use with Riot and it works perfectly.

Now if you mean to get your own local riot frontend for it, I thought there were some docker scripts that would let you do that quickly but I haven't tried those.

Are you going to elaborate in the specific nature of your issues or leave some bait like that? Riot.im should be trivially installable on most Linux systems, including the raspberry pi.

The specific nature of my issue is that there are a finite number of hours in a day.

If you go to the trouble of working on multi-year open source project it shows a lack of foresight to not include a quick install guide for one of the mostly widely sold hobbyist hardware platforms in the world.

Are you talking about the riot-web client? There are Debian packages for it, but even if you don't use those the client is all client-side JavaScript so you can statically host it. I will submit a bug report to add a quick-install guide to the README but it's quite trivial (untar into /var/www/html).

matrix-synapse does have quick install guides but a RPi is probably a bit too low spec to run a matrix server that will federate with matrix.org (though it depends strongly on what rooms you join and how many users you have).

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