Anchor Installation Guide

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installing Anchor.

1. Download the Latest Release from GitHub

  1. Visit the Anchor Releases page.
  2. Download the appropriate binary for your operating system.
  3. Extract the file if necessary and move the binary to a location in your PATH (e.g., /usr/local/bin/).

Example

wget https://github.com/sigp/anchor/releases/download/<version>/anchor-<platform>.tar.gz

# Replace <version> and <platform> with the appropriate values.

tar -xvf anchor-<platform>.tar.gz
sudo mv anchor /usr/local/bin/

Verify the installation:

anchor --version

2. Run Anchor Using Docker

  1. Pull the latest Anchor Docker image:

    docker pull sigp/anchor:latest

  2. Run the Anchor container:

    docker run --rm -it sigp/anchor:latest --help

3. Clone and Build Locally

  1. Clone the Anchor repository:

    git clone https://github.com/sigp/anchor.git
cd anchor

  2. Build the Anchor binary:

    cargo build --release

    The binary will be located in ./target/release/.

  3. Move the binary to a location in your PATH:

    sudo mv target/release/anchor /usr/local/bin/

Verify the installation:

anchor --version