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# Installation and configuration of Synapse
Mind you: this an installation on Debian Linux (at least for now).
Start by installing the latest Synapse server, see the [upstream
documentation](https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/setup/installation.html).
```
apt install -y lsb-release wget apt-transport-https build-essential python3-dev libffi-dev \
python3-pip python3-setuptools sqlite3 \
libssl-dev virtualenv libjpeg-dev libxslt1-dev libicu-dev
wget -O /usr/share/keyrings/matrix-org-archive-keyring.gpg https://packages.matrix.org/debian/matrix-org-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/matrix-org-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.matrix.org/debian/ $(lsb_release -cs) main" |
tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/matrix-org.list
apt update
apt install matrix-synapse-py3
This leaves a very basic configuration in `/etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.yaml`
and two settings under `/etc/conf.d`. All other configuration items will also
be configured with yaml-files in this directory.
Configure the domain you with to use in `/etc/matrix-synapse/conf.d/server_name.yaml`.
What you configure here will also be the global part of your Matrix handles
(the part after the colon).
You now have a standard Matrix server that uses sqlite. You really don't want
to use this in production, so probably want to replace this with PostgreSQL.
There are two different ways to configure Synapse, documented here:
* [Monolithic](monolithic)
* [Workers](workers)
We'll use Synapse, using the workers architecture to make it scalable, flexible and reusable.
