Thank you. I dont have the skill to install from source.
After further investigation, I determined I cannot afford the charges, even if Crowdsec was configured for PureOS as a deb install.
So now I am trying to figure out how to remove what I installed.
I found the below so I am going to try
apt-get remove --purge crowdsec
Well, I figured this out on my own. Something is up with the installation/removal process. You cannot do an “apt remove crowdsec” since it left files in place which I think broke this.
The result of the above is that I needed to manually remove all crowdsec folders and files myself because apt did not do that. Once I did that, I was able to install it properly.
Advice to crowdsec team: Review your “apt remove” code to ensure that it actually removes all the crowdsec files.