### Specter as a Service using the linux tarball (tar.gz) release
Users may want to run the linux tarball release as a system service. This has the added benefits over the python release of being easily verifiable using the release signing keys.
Unfortunately, there are some legacy locale issues that make running the tarball service difficult, so we will need to set local variables in a startup script that will then be called by the systemd service file.
1. Create a file where you normally add manually installed apps and scripts: e.g. `/usr/local/bin/start_specterd`
2. Add the following to the file:
```
#!/bin/bash
#script to set correct system local before starting specterd
export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
export LANG=C.UTF-8
/usr/bin/specterd server --host localhost --port 25441 \
3. Make the script executable `sudo chmod +x /ust/local/bin/start_specterd`
4. Incorporate the script into your `specter.service` file:
```
[Unit]
Description=Specter Desktop Service
After=multi-user.target
Conflicts=getty@tty1.service
[Service]
User=myusername
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/start_specterd
StandardInput=tty-force
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```
5. To start the specter service run `sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl enable --now specter.service`
You can check the status of specter.service by running `systemctl status specter.service` or for debugging, you can get more information by running `sudo journalctl -fu specter.service`
The commented section of the service file above refers to an optional reverse proxy setup which is covered in the [reverse_proxy.md](reverse-proxy.md) document.
