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 the following 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)
• aarch64-apple-darwin: macOS with ARM chips

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.