Install Go Livepeer

Depending on your workflow, you may prefer to install go-livepeer using a binary release, a Docker image, or from source.

Install using a Binary Release

Recommended

Use the install.sh script from the go-livepeer repository (opens in a new tab) to get a completely automated latest release installed onto your system. The script requires presence of curl, sha256sum (for checksum verification) and gpg (for signature validation). To install required dependencies please use the following commands (for popular ubuntu/mac systems):

Dependencies

# For ubuntu
apt install curl coreutils gnupg2
 
# For macOS
brew install curl coreutils gnupg

Installation

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/livepeer/go-livepeer/master/install.sh)"

Additional steps to install custom release for individual OS are declared below.

Darwin (macOS)

# <RELEASE_VERSION> is the release version, e.g. v0.5.35
# IMPORTANT: if you are using macOS with an M1 chip, you'll need to run these commands using the Rosetta emulator
 
# Fetch the latest release
wget https://github.com/livepeer/go-livepeer/releases/download/<RELEASE_VERSION>/livepeer-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
 
# Next, extract it
tar -zxvf livepeer-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
 
# Finally, move it to the appropriate directory
mv livepeer-darwin-amd64/* /usr/local/bin/

Linux

# <RELEASE_VERSION> is the release version, e.g. v0.5.35
 
# Fetch the latest release
wget https://github.com/livepeer/go-livepeer/releases/download/<RELEASE_VERSION>/livepeer-linux-amd64.tar.gz
 
# Next, extract it
tar -zxvf livepeer-linux-amd64.tar.gz
 
# Finally, move it to the appropriate directory
mv livepeer-linux-amd64/* /usr/local/bin/

Windows

# <RELEASE_VERSION> is the release version, e.g. v0.5.35
 
# Fetch the latest release .zip
wget https://github.com/livepeer/go-livepeer/releases/download/<RELEASE_VERSION>/livepeer-windows-amd64.zip
 
# Next, extract it
unzip livepeer-windows-amd64.zip
 
# Finally, move it to the appropriate directory, e.g. C:\Users\UserName\livepeer-folder
move livepeer-windows-amd64 e.g. C:\Users\UserName\livepeer-folder

Third-party packages

Packages for different Linux distributions are maintained by Livepeer community members. Before using these packages, please verify that they have been updated to use the latest builds of go-livepeer (opens in a new tab). This list will be updated as a best-effort, but we cannot guarantee if individual packages are up to date or verify their integrity.

In the future, Livepeer core contributors may publish official packages for the distributions below.

Install using a Docker image

Prerequisites

If you do not have Docker installed, you will need to install it using the guide here (opens in a new tab) before running the commands below.

Installation

With every release, Docker images are pushed to DockerHub (opens in a new tab).

If you are running macOS with an M1 chip, you'll need to run your terminal using the Rosetta emulator (opens in a new tab) and specifically pull the linux/amd64 release. In the future, we will provide alternative arm64 builds.

# <RELEASE_VERSION> is the release version i.e. 0.5.14
docker pull livepeer/go-livepeer:<RELEASE_VERSION>
 
# Mac M1 only
docker pull --platform linux/amd64 livepeer/go-livepeer:<RELEASE_VERSION>

Running livepeer-cli with Docker

Once you've pulled the image, retrieve the image id and start the container.

Any flags you provide will be passed to the binary, so you can pass your configuration here.

docker run <image id> <livepeer configuration flags>
 
# Mac M1 only
docker run --platform linux/amd64 <image id> <livepeer configuration flags>

Once you've started the container, retrieve the name and start the CLI

docker exec -it <container_name> livepeer_cli

Installing pre-releases with Docker

To pull the latest pre-release version:

docker pull livepeer/go-livepeer:master

Build from source

System dependencies

Building livepeer requires some system dependencies.

Linux (Ubuntu: 16.04 or 18.04)

apt-get update && apt-get -y install build-essential pkg-config autoconf git curl

Linux (Ubuntu: 20.04)

apt-get -y install protobuf-compiler-grpc golang-goprotobuf-dev

To enable transcoding using Nvidia GPUs on Linux systems

• CUDA must be installed on the system
• clang must be installed as well. The script that will install ffmpeg dependencies uses which clang command to determine whether clang is installed or not. Please check this on your system. If the path is empty, please install clang. For example on the Ubuntu machine one can do

apt-get -y install clang clang-tools

Darwin (macOS)

brew update && brew install pkg-config autoconf

Windows

The steps in this file (opens in a new tab) can be used as a reference.

Go

Building livepeer requires Go. Follow the official Go installation instructions (opens in a new tab).

Build and install

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/livepeer/go-livepeer.git
cd go-livepeer

2. Install ffmpeg dependencies:

./install_ffmpeg.sh

3. Set build environment variables.

Set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable so that pkg-config can find the ffmpeg dependency files installed in step 2:

# install_ffmpeg.sh stores ffmpeg dependency files in this directory by default
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=~/compiled/lib/pkgconfig

Set the BUILD_TAGS variable to enable mainnet support:

export BUILD_TAGS=mainnet
# To build with support for only development networks and the Rinkeby test network
# export BUILD_TAGS=rinkeby
# To build with support for only development networks
# export BUILD_TAGS=dev

4. Build and install livepeer:

make
cp livepeer* /usr/local/bin

Build with Docker

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/livepeer/go-livepeer.git
cd go-livepeer

2. Export tags:

echo $(git describe --tags) > .git.describe

3. Build image:

docker build -t livepeerbinary:debian -f docker/Dockerfile.debian .