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@@ -70,6 +70,50 @@ services:
 
 then start with `docker-compose up -d`
 
+**Installation with systemd** (on ubuntu 18.04)
+
+Prerequisites:
+
+```bash
+Add a repository with the latest Version of golang and install the prerequisites:
+sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
+sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
+sudo apt install build-essential git sqlite libtag1-dev ffmpeg libasound-dev golang
+```
+
+Download and compile gonic in the home directory  
+
+```bash
+go get go.senan.xyz/gonic/cmd/gonic
+```
+
+Add a gonic user and create a directory for the server:
+
+```bash
+sudo mkdir -p /var/gonic/
+sudo adduser --disabled-login --gecos "" gonic
+sudo mv go/bin/gonic /var/gonic/
+sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sentriz/gonic/master/contrib/config -O /var/gonic/config
+sudo chmod -R 750 /var/gonic/
+sudo chown -R gonic:gonic /var/gonic/
+```
+
+Add your music-path to the config file
+
+```bash
+sudo nano /var/gonic/config
+```
+
+Setup systemd service:
+
+```bash
+sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sentriz/gonic/master/contrib/gonic.service -O /etc/systemd/system/gonic.service
+sudo systemctl daemon-reload
+sudo systemctl enable --now gonic
+```
+
+
+
 ## configuration options
 
 |env var|command line arg|description|
diff --git a/contrib/config b/contrib/config
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+++ b/contrib/config
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+music-path        
+cache-path        /tmp/gonic_cache
+db-path           /var/gonic/gonic.db
+jukebox-enabled   false
+listen-addr       127.0.0.1:4747
+proxy-prefix      /gonic
+scan-interval     0
diff --git a/contrib/gonic.service b/contrib/gonic.service
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index 0000000..71508f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/gonic.service
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Gonic service
+ConditionPathExists=/var/gonic/gonic
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+User=gonic
+Group=gonic
+LimitNOFILE=1024
+
+Restart=on-failure
+RestartSec=10
+
+WorkingDirectory=/var/gonic/
+ExecStart=/var/gonic/gonic -config-path /var/gonic/config
+
+# make sure log directory exists and owned by syslog
+PermissionsStartOnly=true
+ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/log/gonic
+ExecStartPre=/bin/chown syslog:adm /var/log/gonic
+ExecStartPre=/bin/chmod 755 /var/log/gonic
+StandardOutput=syslog
+StandardError=syslog
+SyslogIdentifier=sleepservice
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target