Download a gzip-compressed tar archive release from Launchpad for your operating system and architecture. Generally, Hockeypuck can be built for any Unix-like platform that the Go language compiler and linker supports.
The archive can be extracted into '/'. This will preserve the path references in the archived files.
For added security, you could extract into an arbitrary path and chroot the Hockeypuck process. If you do this, consider the implications for a local UNIX domain socket connection to PostgreSQL.
Similarly, binary distributions could be run within LXC (Linux containers).
The Hockeypuck binary archive distributions could be a useful starting point to build packages for other operating system distributions.
Now you have installed static Hockeypuck binaries and the starting point example configuration, move on to Configuration to set up your Hockeypuck service.