Source

Code

TLP’s source code is hosted on GitHub. The repository holds the following branches:

  • main – current development – releases are tagged with VERSION

  • debian/current – Debian/Ubuntu packaging for current releases (not identical with the official distribution packages)

  • debian/legacy – Debian/Ubuntu packaging for old releases (deprecated, unmaintained)

Obtain the current development version with

git clone git://github.com/linrunner/TLP.git tlp.git
cd tlp.git

Checkout the main branch

git checkout main

or a release version

git checkout VERSION

Note

Please base your pull requests on the main branch.

The current changelog for the development version is here.

Download release tarballs at the Release page.

Building Packages

Debian / Ubuntu

  1. Install the package

  • packaging-dev – Metapackage providing common packaging tools

  1. Checkout debian/current branch

    git checkout -b debian/current origin/debian/current
    
  2. Checkout main branch

    git checkout main
    
  3. Populate debian/ with

    rm -rf debian/*
    git checkout debian/current -- debian
    git rm -r --cached debian
    
  4. Edit debian/changelog to your needs (optional).

  5. Build binary packages with

    dpkg-buildpackage -b -tc -i.git
    

Arch Linux

Packages tracking the main branch are available in the AUR:

Installing from Source

  1. Checkout the main branch (see Code).

  2. In the tlp.git/ directory

    make install
    make install-man
    systemctl enable tlp.service
    

Note

Check Makefile options to customize make install to your distribution’s requirements.

Warning

Depending on your distribution’s specifics make install may not produce a working TLP installation, thus your mileage may vary.