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Installation

Nimbus beacon chain can run on Linux, MacOS, Windows, and Andriod. At the moment, Nimbus has to be built from source.

External Dependencies

Developer tools (C compiler, Make, Bash, Git)
PCRE Nim is not an external dependency, Nimbus will build its own local copy.

Linux

On common Linux distributions the dependencies can be installed with:

# Debian and Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install build-essential git libpcre3-dev

# Fedora
dnf install @development-tools pcre

# Archlinux, using an AUR manager for pcre-static
yourAURmanager -S base-devel pcre-static

MacOS

Assuming you use Homebrew to manage packages

brew install pcre

Windows

You can install the developer tools by following the instruction in our Windows dev environment section. It also provides a downloading script for prebuilt PCRE.

Android

Install the Termux app from FDroid or the Google Play store
Install a PRoot of your choice following the instructions for your preferred distribution. Note, the Ubuntu PRoot is known to contain all Nimbus prerequisites compiled on Arm64 architecture (common architecture for Android devices).

Assuming Ubuntu PRoot is used

apt install build-essential git libpcre3-dev

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