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layout: project
title: Synapse
categories: projects server
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author: Matrix.org team
maturity: Late beta
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Matrix.org’s reference server – Synapse: [https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse)

Apt repo: [https://matrix.org/packages/debian/](https://matrix.org/packages/debian/)

Dockerfile from Silvio Fricke: [https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/silviof/docker-matrix/](https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/silviof/docker-matrix/) – also hosted on [https://github.com/matrix-org/docker-matrix](https://github.com/matrix-org/docker-matrix)

ArchLinux package from Ivan Shapovalov: [https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/matrix-synapse/](https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/matrix-synapse/)

There is a FreeBSD package on [freshports.org](http://www.freshports.org/net/py-matrix-synapse/).

Martin Giess has created an auto-deployment process with vagrant/ansible, tested with VirtualBox/AWS/DigitalOcean – see [https://github.com/EMnify/matrix-synapse-auto-deploy](https://github.com/EMnify/matrix-synapse-auto-deploy) for details.

Synapse is also on the [Open Build Service](https://obs.infoserver.lv/project/show/matrix-synapse).

Synapse is available for the [Nix package manager](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/services/misc/matrix-synapse.nix).

You can get Synapse on [Yunohost](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/synapse_ynh)

There is also a [handy spreadsheet](http://matrix.org/docs/projects/other/hdd-space-calc-for-synapse.html) to calculate HDD space for your Synapse instance.

