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Install a Veilid Node
Server Grade Headless Nodes
These network support nodes are heavier than the node a user would establish on their phone in the form of a chat or social media application. A cloud based virtual private server (VPS), such as Digital Ocean Droplets or AWS EC2, with high bandwidth, processing resources, and uptime availability is crucial for building the fast, secure, and private routing that Veilid is built to provide.
Install
Debian
Follow the steps here to add the repo to a Debian based system and install Veilid.
Step 1: Add the GPG keys to your operating systems keyring.
Explanation: The wget command downloads the public key, and the sudo gpg command adds the public key to the keyring.
wget -O- https://packages.veilid.net/gpg/veilid-packages-key.public | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/veilid-packages-keyring.gpg
Step 2: Identify your architecture
Explanation: The following command will tell you what type of CPU your system is running
dpkg --print-architecture
Step 3: Add Veilid to your list of available software.
Explanation: Use the result of your command in Step 2 and run one of the following:
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For AMD64 based systems run this command:
echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/veilid-packages-keyring.gpg] https://packages.veilid.net/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/veilid.list 1>/dev/null -
For ARM64 based systems run this command:
echo "deb [arch=arm64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/veilid-packages-keyring.gpg] https://packages.veilid.net/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/veilid.list 1>/dev/null
Explanation:
Each of the above commands will create a new file called veilid.list in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. This file contains instructions that tell the operating system where to download Veilid.
Step 4: Refresh the package manager.
Explanation: This tells the apt package manager to rebuild the list of available software using the files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory.
sudo apt update
Step 5: Install Veilid.
sudo apt install veilid-server veilid-cli
RPM-based
Follow the steps here to add the repo to RPM-based systems (CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Fedora, etc.) and install Veilid.
Step 1: Add Veilid to your list of available software.
sudo yum-config-manager --add-repo https://packages.veilid.net/rpm/veilid-rpm-repo.repo
Step 2: Install Veilid.
sudo dnf install veilid-server veilid-cli
Step 2: Install Veilid. Explanation: With the package manager updated, it is now possible to install Veilid!
dnf install veilid-server veilid-cli