# Intalling Swirlds on Debian

To make Swirlds work on Debian, it is possible that the hardware random number generator needs to be confgured for TLS to work

## Setting up the hardware random number generator

If the Swirlds software freezes immediately when it is run, then it is possibly a problem with the entropy collection system used by Debian. That might be fixed by doing the following from the command line:

    apt-get install haveged
    update-rc.d haveged defaults

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