Installing manually on Linux

Yggdrasil is supported on Linux.

Build from source

Linux has most of the tools needed to build Yggdrasil from source - you just need to install the Go toolchain. Yggdrasil requires Go 1.11 as a minimum.

Install the latest version of Go for your platform
- Using godeb to install Go is recommended for Debian-based distributions

Clone the repository and build:

cd /path/to
git clone https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go

Build Yggdrasil:

cd /path/to/yggdrasil-go
./build

The build will produce yggdrasil and yggdrasilctl binaries - copy these into a suitable location:

sudo cp {yggdrasil,yggdrasilctl} /usr/local/bin

Debug builds

You can create a debug build by running ./build -d instead of ./build. Debug builds contain profiling code as well as additional debugging symbols. They are likely to be larger files as a result.

Install systemd service

systemd service scripts are included in the contrib/systemd/ folder so that it runs automatically in the background (using /etc/yggdrasil.conf for configuration).

Create the yggdrasil group on your system - the systemd service will run with this group:

sudo groupadd --system yggdrasil

Copy the service files:

sudo cp contrib/systemd/yggdrasil.service /etc/systemd/system
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Enable and start Yggdrasil:

sudo systemctl enable yggdrasil
sudo systemctl start yggdrasil

Once installed as a systemd service, you can read the yggdrasil output using systemctl or journalctl:

systemctl status yggdrasil
journalctl -u yggdrasil

Generate configuration

Generate an initial Yggdrasil configuration file:

sudo yggdrasil -genconf > /etc/yggdrasil.conf

You can make changes to this file as described in the Configuration page.

After installation

Read the Linux platform page page for further information about Linux platform support.