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layout: "intro"
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page_title: "Install Vault"
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sidebar_current: "gettingstarted-install"
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description: |-
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The first step to using Vault is to get it installed.
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---
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# Install Vault
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Vault must first be installed on your machine. Vault is distributed as
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a [binary package](/downloads.html) for all supported platforms and
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architectures. This page will not cover how to compile Vault from source,
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but compiling from source is covered in the [documentation](#)
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for those who want to be sure they're compiling source they trust into
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the final binary.
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## Installing Vault
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To install Vault, find the [appropriate package](/downloads.html) for
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your system and download it. Vault is packaged as a zip archive.
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After downloading Vault, unzip the package. Vault runs as a single binary
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named `vault`. Any other files in the package can be safely removed and
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Vault will still function.
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The final step is to make sure that `vault` is available on the PATH.
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See [this page](http://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](http://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 Vault, verify the installation worked by opening a new
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terminal session and checking that `vault` is available. By executing
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`vault`, you should see help output similar to that below:
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```
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TODO
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```
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If you get an error that Vault could not be found, then your PATH environment
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variable was not setup properly. Please go back and ensure that your PATH
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variable contains the directory where Vault was installed.
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Otherwise, Vault is installed and ready to go!
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