Pre-built Binaries

Each Lighthouse release contains several downloadable binaries in the "Assets" section of the release. You can find the releases on Github.

Platforms

Binaries are supplied for five platforms:

• x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu: AMD/Intel 64-bit processors (most desktops, laptops, servers)
• aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu: 64-bit ARM processors (Raspberry Pi 4)
• x86_64-apple-darwin: macOS with Intel chips
• aarch64-apple-darwin: macOS with ARM chips
• x86_64-windows: Windows with 64-bit processors

Usage

Each binary is contained in a .tar.gz archive. For this example, lets assume the user needs a x86_64 binary.

Steps

1. Go to the Releases page and select the latest release.

2. Download the lighthouse-${VERSION}-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz binary. For example, to obtain the binary file for v4.0.1 (the latest version at the time of writing), a user can run the following commands in a linux terminal:

   cd ~
   curl -LO https://github.com/sigp/lighthouse/releases/download/v4.0.1/lighthouse-v4.0.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
   tar -xvf lighthouse-v4.0.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
   

3. Test the binary with ./lighthouse --version (it should print the version).

4. (Optional) Move the lighthouse binary to a location in your PATH, so the lighthouse command can be called from anywhere. For example, to copy lighthouse from the current directory to usr/bin, run sudo cp lighthouse /usr/bin.

Windows users will need to execute the commands in Step 2 from PowerShell.