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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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description: |-
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Consul must first be installed on every node that will be a member of the Consul cluster. To make installation easy, Consul is distributed as a binary package for all supported platforms and architectures. This page will not cover how to compile Consul from source.
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# Install Consul
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Consul must first be installed on your machine. Consul is distributed as a
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[binary package](/downloads.html) for all supported platforms and architectures.
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This page will not cover how to compile Consul from source, but compiling from
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source is covered in the [documentation](/docs/index.html) for those who want to
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be sure they're compiling source they trust into the final binary.
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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. Consul runs as a single binary
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named `consul`. Any other files in the package can be safely removed and
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Consul will still function.
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The final step is to make sure that the `consul` binary is available on the `PATH`.
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See [this page](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14637979/how-to-permanently-set-path-on-linux)
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for instructions on setting the PATH on Linux and Mac.
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[This page](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1618280/where-can-i-set-path-to-make-exe-on-windows)
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contains instructions for setting the PATH on Windows.
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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 this:
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```text
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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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event Fire a new event
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# ...
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```
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If you get an error that `consul` could not be found, your `PATH`
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environment variable was not set up properly. Please go back and ensure
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that your `PATH` variable contains the directory where Consul was
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installed.
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## Next Steps
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Consul is installed and ready for operation. Let's
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[run the agent](agent.html)!
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