Installing OpenTofu on RHEL, Fedora, openSUSE, and other RPM-based distributions

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OpenTofu is distributed in the .rpm package format on Packagecloud. You can install it using a convenience script or by following the step-by-step instructions below.

Installing using the convenience script

You can install OpenTofu using the convenience script with the following commands:

Yum (RHEL/Fedora/etc.)
Zypper (openSUSE)

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL 'https://packages.opentofu.org/install/repositories/opentofu/tofu/script.rpm.sh?any=true' -o /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh
# Inspect the downloaded script at /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh before running
sudo bash /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh
rm /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh

sudo yum install -y tofu

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL 'https://packages.opentofu.org/install/repositories/opentofu/tofu/script.rpm.sh?any=true' -o /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh
# Inspect the downloaded script at /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh before running
sudo bash /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh
rm /tmp/tofu-repository-setup.sh

sudo zypper install -y tofu

Step-by-step instructions

The following steps explain how to set up the OpenTofu RPM repositories. These instructions should work on most RPM-based Linux systems.

Adding the OpenTofu repository

Yum (RHEL/Fedora/etc.)
Zypper (openSUSE)

Create the /etc/yum.repos.d/opentofu.repo file by running the following command:

cat >/etc/yum.repos.d/opentofu.repo <<EOF
[opentofu]
name=opentofu
baseurl=https://packages.opentofu.org/opentofu/tofu/rpm_any/rpm_any/\$basearch
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://packages.opentofu.org/opentofu/tofu/gpgkey
sslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
metadata_expire=300

[opentofu-source]
name=opentofu-source
baseurl=https://packages.opentofu.org/opentofu/tofu/rpm_any/rpm_any/SRPMS
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://packages.opentofu.org/opentofu/tofu/gpgkey
sslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
metadata_expire=300
EOF

Create the /etc/zypp/repos.d/opentofu.repo file by running the following command:

cat >/etc/zypp/repos.d/opentofu.repo <<EOF
[opentofu]
name=opentofu
baseurl=https://packagecloud.io/opentofu/tofu/rpm_any/rpm_any/\$basearch
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/opentofu/tofu/gpgkey
sslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
metadata_expire=300

[opentofu-source]
name=opentofu-source
baseurl=https://packagecloud.io/opentofu/tofu/rpm_any/rpm_any/SRPMS
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/opentofu/tofu/gpgkey
sslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
metadata_expire=300
EOF