Added article about the APT repository for OpenFastTrace.

content/posts/2026/09/06/openfasttrace-apt-repository.md

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+title: "Install OpenFastTrace from the itsallcode.org APT Repository"
+date: 2026-09-06
+draft: false
+author: "sebastian"
+---
+
+OpenFastTrace is now available from the new [Itsallcode APT repository](https://apt.itsallcode.org). Debian, Ubuntu, and users of other Debian-based distributions can install it through their normal package-management workflow.
+
+[OpenFastTrace 4.9.0](https://github.com/itsallcode/openfasttrace/releases/tag/4.9.0) is the first version published there. From now on, we will publish new OFT releases as `.deb` packages in the repository shortly after their GitHub release.
+
+## Configure the repository
+
+First, install the itsallcode.org signing key and add the APT source:
+
+```sh
+sudo install --directory --mode=0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
+curl --fail --silent --show-error --location \
+  https://apt.itsallcode.org/itsallcode-archive-keyring.asc \
+  | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes --output /etc/apt/keyrings/itsallcode-archive-keyring.gpg
+echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/itsallcode-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.itsallcode.org stable main' \
+  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/itsallcode.list > /dev/null
+sudo apt update
+```
+
+Before trusting a newly downloaded signing key, compare its fingerprint with the [published fingerprint](https://apt.itsallcode.org/itsallcode-archive-keyring.fingerprint).
+
+## Install OpenFastTrace
+
+Once the repository is configured, install OpenFastTrace with:
+
+```sh
+sudo apt install openfasttrace
+```
+
+After installation, `oft --help` shows the available command-line options. For usage and requirement notation, see the [OpenFastTrace user guide](https://github.com/itsallcode/openfasttrace/blob/main/doc/user_guide/user_guide.md).
+
+The [APT repository project](https://github.com/itsallcode/itsallcode-apt-repository) contains the repository documentation and packaging sources.