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layout: "intro"
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page_title: "Installing Consul"
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sidebar_current: "gettingstarted-install"
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---
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# Install Consul
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Consul must first be installed on every node that will be a member of a
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Consul cluster. To make installation easy, Consul is distributed as a
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[binary package](/downloads.html) for all supported platforms and
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architectures. This page will not cover how to compile Consul from
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source.
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## Installing Consul
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To install Consul, find the [appropriate package](/downloads.html) for
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your system and download it. Consul is packaged as a "zip" archive.
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After downloading Consul, unzip the package. Copy the `consul` binary to
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somewhere on the PATH so that it can be executed. On Unix systems,
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`~/bin` and `/usr/local/bin` are common installation directories,
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depending on if you want to restrict the install to a single user or
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expose it to the entire system. On Windows systems, you can put it wherever
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you would like.
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## Verifying the Installation
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After installing Consul, verify the installation worked by opening a new
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terminal session and checking that `consul` is available. By executing
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`consul` you should see help output similar to that below:
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```
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$ consul
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usage: consul [--version] [--help] <command> [<args>]
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Available commands are:
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agent Runs a Consul agent
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force-leave Forces a member of the cluster to enter the "left" state
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info Provides debugging information for operators
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join Tell Consul agent to join cluster
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keygen Generates a new encryption key
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leave Gracefully leaves the Consul cluster and shuts down
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members Lists the members of a Consul cluster
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monitor Stream logs from a Consul agent
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version Prints the Consul version
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```
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If you get an error that `consul` could not be found, then your PATH
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environmental variable was not setup properly. Please go back and ensure
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that your PATH variable contains the directory where Consul was installed.
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Otherwise, Consul is installed and ready to go!
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