# Installing an add-on, logging in via terminal **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [February 24, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/installing-an-add-on-logging-in-via-terminal/68982 "2026-02-24T16:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boeuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@boeuff](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/boeuff)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/installing-an-add-on-logging-in-via-terminal/68982/1 "2026-02-24T16:09:10Z")
Hi everyone, I have coded a little app that takes a page of a vocabulary, scans the left and right side in the appropriate language, and after some editing and some external api calls it produces a list of word objects containing word, translation, part of speech, IPA, audio file, and some other data. I want to run this on my home server, and I’d like to have a different container or VM running anki on that same server, with the add-on anki-connect installed so I can automatically generate cards for each chapter and push them to anki. Is it possible to install Anki on, say, a minimal debian system, connect to AnkiWeb/my own sync server, and install anki-connect using the terminal? [Add-ons - Anki Manual](https://docs.ankiweb.net/addons.html) only shows how to do it via the GUI, but I dont really need the GUI on the server as long as it syncs, and I’d like to keep the image small. Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/installing-an-add-on-logging-in-via-terminal/68982/2 "2026-03-26T16:09:19Z")
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