Act Runner Installer

Simple installer to fetch and install the latest gitea/act_runner release for your Linux machine.

Quick start

Run the installer directly:

curl -fSSL https://get-act.tk2s.org | bash

If your environment requires elevated permissions to write to /usr/local/bin, run with sudo:

curl -fSSL https://get-act.tk2s.org | sudo bash

What it does

• Detects your CPU architecture
• Fetches the latest act_runner release info
• Downloads the appropriate Linux binary
• Installs it to /usr/local/bin/act_runner and makes it executable

Requirements

• Linux
• curl, jq, wget, unxz, sha256sum

Notes

• The script will update an existing installation if a newer version is available.
• You may need network access to gitea.com to retrieve release metadata.

Register the runner

Replace placeholders and run:

act_runner register \
  --config /etc/act_runner/config.yaml \
  --instance https://your-gitea.example.com \
  --token <REGISTRATION_TOKEN> \
  --no-interactive

Then start (or restart) the service:

systemctl restart act-runner

Uninstall

sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/act_runner