Installation Guide

Guided installation for all platforms

FreeBSD#

Coming soon…

Windows#

Follow the Linux install instructions under WSL.

MacOS#

Installing the client, or server software on MacOS.

Installing ruby#

Blade3 requires the latest version of ruby, which MacOS does not provide. Install Homebrew to get a more up-to-date version.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

brew install ruby

Installing#

You can use the following one-liner, to automatically install blade3. It will ask you which components you wish to install.

/usr/bin/env ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://install.blade3.xyz/install.rb)"

Linux#

Installing the client, or server software on Linux.

Installing ruby#

You can install ruby using on the following commands, depending on your distro:

sudo apt install ruby # Debian based
sudo pacman -Syu ruby # Arch-based
sudo dnf install ruby # Fedora

Installing#

You can use the following one-liner, to automatically install blade3. It will ask you which components you wish to install.

/usr/bin/env ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://install.blade3.xyz/install.rb)"

Alternative installation methods#

Install script WITHOUT curl | ruby#

If you wish to pre-read the installer script before you execute it

curl -fsSL https://install.blade3.xyz/install.rb -O
vim install.rb # Pre-read the installer script!
sh install.rb # Execute the wizard

Building from source#

# Clone from GitHub
git clone https://github.com/blade3xyz/blade3.git
cd blade3

# Build blade3 into a single application
make build

# Install blade3 client, and server
sudo make install