How to install OpenClaw on Ubuntu?

Situatie

OpenClaw este un gateway AI self-hosted care permite accesul la un asistent AI din multiple surse:

– WhatsApp

– Telegram

– Discord

– Browser dashboard

Pentru instalare sunt 3 variante:

– offical installer

– local-prefix

– manual npm

Solutie

Pasi de urmat

Official Installer

Instalează automat Git și Node.js dacă lipsesc.

1. Instalare curl

sudo apt update && sudo apt install curl -y

2. Instalare OpenClaw

curl -fsSL –proto ‘=https’ –tlsv1.2 https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash -s — –n

Adauga PATH:

grep -qxF ‘export PATH=”$HOME/.npm-global/bin:$PATH”‘ ~/.bashrc || \ printf ‘%s\n’ ‘export PATH=”$HOME/.npm-global/bin:$PATH”‘ >> ~/.bashrc export PATH=”$HOME/.npm-global/bin:$PATH” hash -r

Verificare:

openclaw –version

Local-Prefix Installer

Tot (CLI + Node.js) sub ~/.openclaw

1. Instalare

curl -fsSL –proto ‘=https’ –tlsv1.2 https://openclaw.ai/install-cli.sh | bash

2. Adaugă PATH

grep -qxF ‘export PATH=”$HOME/.openclaw/bin:$PATH”‘ ~/.bashrc || \ printf ‘%s\n’ ‘export PATH=”$HOME/.openclaw/bin:$PATH”‘ >> ~/.bashrc export PATH=“$HOME/.openclaw/bin:$PATH“ hash -r

# 3. Verificare

openclaw –version

Manual npm

Cerințe: Node.js 22.14+ sau Node.js 24 deja instalat.

1. Configurare npm prefix

mkdir -p “$HOME/.npm-global” npm config set prefix “$HOME/.npm-global”

2. Adaugă PATH

3. Instalare

npm install -g openclaw@latest

4. Verificare

openclaw –version

Configurare Inițială (Onboarding)

Onboarding interactiv:

openclaw onboard –install-daemon

Configurează:

API keys pentru AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
Gateway auth mode
Serviciu systemd user

Onboarding non-interactiv (doar dashboard local):

openclaw onboard –non-interactive –accept-risk –skip-channels –skip-skills \ –skip-search –skip-ui –install-daemon –gateway-bind loopback \ –gateway-auth token –gateway-token your-token

Activare lingering (serviciu activ după logout):

sudo loginctl enable-linger “$USER”

Verificare Instalare

1.Status gateway

openclaw gateway status

2.URL dashboard cu token

openclaw dashboard –no-open

**Output:**

`“ Dashboard URL: http://127.0.0.1:18789/#token=your-token

Se copiaza link-ul intr-un browser pentru verificare.

3. Status complet

openclaw status

Dezinstalare

npm-backed install:

1.dezinstalare openClaw

opencLaw uninstall –all –yes –non-interactive

2.sterge npm package

npm rm -g opencLaw

3.verificare test

-x ~/.npm-global/bin/openclaw && echo PREZENT || echo ȘTERS

Tip solutie

Permanent

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