Installing Syncthing as a service in Ubuntu

Installing Syncthing and then adding it as a service in Ubuntu: 

 1. Add the Syncthing APT repository key: 

 curl -s https://syncthing.net/release-key.txt | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/syncthing.gpg > /dev/null 

 2. Add the Syncthing APT repository: 

 echo "deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/syncthing.list 

 3. Update your package database: 

 sudo apt update 

 4. Install Syncthing: 

 sudo apt install syncthing 

 5. Start Syncthing: 

 syncthing 

 Alternatively, you can set up Syncthing to run as a service: 

 sudo systemctl enable syncthing@$USER.service 

 sudo systemctl start syncthing@$USER.service 

 These steps should help you install and start Syncthing on your Ubuntu system.