installation.md

Installation Guide

Follow this guide to setup Solana's key generation tool called solana-keygen

{% hint style="warn" %} After installation, ensure your version is 0.21.1 or higher by running solana-keygen -V {% endhint %}

Download

First, download the latest release tarball from GitHub.

1. Setup download url

solana_downloads=https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/releases/latest/download

2. Specify the download file based on your machine

MacOS

solana_release=solana-release-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2

Linux

solana_release=solana-release-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.bz2

3. Download

curl -L -sSf -o solana-release.tar.bz2 $solana_downloads/$solana_release

Extract

Next, extract the tarball

tar xf solana-release.tar.bz2

Add to "PATH"

Now add the tool to your PATH environment variable with the following command

export PATH="$(pwd)/solana-release/bin:${PATH}"

Check

Finally, check that solana-keygen can be run by running

solana-keygen -V