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title: Install pollen on Linux | Snap Store
description: Get the latest version of pollen for Linux - Pollen Entropy-as-a-Service
  web server
url: https://snapcraft.io/pollen
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# pollen

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latest/stable 4.22

Install latest/stable of pollen

This channel hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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**Install using the command line**

```
sudo snap install pollen
```

Don't have snapd? [Get set up for snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

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### Package name

* pollen

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### License

* AGPL-3.0

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### Last updated

* 24 July 2024 - latest/stable
* 24 July 2024 - latest/beta

This snap hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

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### Websites

* [launchpad.net/pollen](https://launchpad.net/pollen "https://launchpad.net/pollen")

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### Source code

* [github.com/canonical/pollen](https://github.com/canonical/pollen "https://github.com/canonical/pollen")

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### Report a bug

* [bugs.launchpad.net](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pollen "https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pollen")

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##### Report a Snap Store violation

* [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/pollen#report-snap-modal)

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* [Description](https://snapcraft.io/pollen#tab-description)
* [Security](https://snapcraft.io/pollen#tab-security)

#### Pollen Entropy-as-a-Service web server

Pollen is a high-performance, scalable, free web server that provides 'Entropy-as-a-Service' by offering small strings of entropy over both HTTPS and clear-text HTTP connections.
Canonical provides a Pollen server as a service to the Ubuntu community at <https://entropy.ubuntu.com>. Beginning with Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu cloud images include the Pollinate client, which will try (for up to 3 seconds at first boot) to seed the PRNG with input from <https://entropy.ubuntu.com>.
This snap package is specifically designed to work with the Pollen charm in order to provide easy and seamless deployment within a juju-managed environment. This snapped pollen includes additional support for Prometheus metrics to integrate with Canonical Observability Stack.

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## Install pollen on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the [installing snapd documentation](https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snapd).

[### Arch Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/arch)

[### CentOS](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/centos)

[### Debian](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/debian)

[### elementary OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/elementary)

[### Fedora](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/fedora)

[### KDE Neon](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/kde-neon)

[### Kubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/kubuntu)

[### Manjaro](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/manjaro)

[### Pop!\_OS](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/pop)

[### openSUSE](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/opensuse)

[### Red Hat Enterprise Linux](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/rhel)

[### Ubuntu](https://snapcraft.io/install/pollen/ubuntu)