Setup

Install the base packages and confirm the service starts before touching any defaults. Changing configuration first makes it impossible to tell a packaging problem from a typo.

apt-get update
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends ca-certificates curl
systemctl enable --now example.service

Release archives for the current revision are published as example-1.4.tar.gz.

Layout

Path	Purpose
`/etc/example/`	Configuration
`/var/lib/example/`	Runtime state
`/var/log/example/`	Rotated logs

Verify

systemctl status example.service --no-pager
journalctl -u example.service -n 50 --no-pager