Install the Engine

If you prefer a cleaner separation between the engine and your robot homes, unpack a release archive into a stable location such as /opt/gopherbot.

Suggested layout

/opt/gopherbot/
  gopherbot
  conf/
  lib/
  resources/
  plugins/
  jobs/
  tasks/
  robot.skel/

Running a robot from that install

Create a robot home somewhere writable:

mkdir -p ~/robots/acme
cd ~/robots/acme
/opt/gopherbot/gopherbot

That command uses:

• the install tree at /opt/gopherbot for built-in assets
• the current directory for writable robot state and custom/

Sample SSH key for the default robot

The shipped default robot includes sample SSH users and keys so you can connect locally without doing any setup first. For the alice demo user:

chmod 600 /opt/gopherbot/resources/ssh-default/alice.key
ssh -i /opt/gopherbot/resources/ssh-default/alice.key -p 4221 alice@localhost

That is the fastest way to kick the tires on a fresh install.