AusweisApp2 as Open Source Software
The advantage of open source software is that people all over the world contribute to the open software culture. The source code of AusweisApp2 is therefore available on the online platform GitHub. Under the EUPL licence, users can get the original source code, duplicate it, develop it further, program optimizations and make them available to the community again.
The European Union Public License (EUPL) of AusweisApp2 allows the eID client to be made available for operating systems that are not officially supported, as well as use on citizen terminals and deep integration of the eID function into own applications. Suitable changes from the community can be adopted for official further development and incorporated into the certified AusweisApp2 provided by the federal government.
Optimizing and Developing Together - Community Projects
Open source projects live above all from the community of a large number of developers. With the source code of AusweisApp2, interested users from this developer community have developed various app versions for different operating systems and platforms. Here you can find the most widely used versions.
If a community edition is missing, please contact us so that we can update this overview.
Please note that unfortunately no support can be offered for the following app variants.
Debian/ Ubuntu
https://packages.debian.org/ausweisapp2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ausweisapp2
Backport-PPA: https://launchpad.net/~misery/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Flatpak
https://github.com/flathub/de.bund.ausweisapp.ausweisapp2
https://flathub.org/apps/details/de.bund.ausweisapp.ausweisapp2
openSUSE
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/security/AusweisApp2
Since Leap 15.2, AusweisApp2 is regularly installable via the package management.
Fedora
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/AusweisApp2
ArchLinux
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ausweisapp2
Alpine
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=ausweisapp2
Docker
https://github.com/misery/DockerAusweisApp2
Snap
https://snapcraft.io/ausweisapp2-ce
Gentoo
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-auth/AusweisApp2
NixOS
https://search.nixos.org/packages?show=AusweisApp2&query=AusweisApp2
F-Droid
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.governikus.ausweisapp2/
APK-Releases on GitHub.com
https://github.com/Governikus/AusweisApp2/releases