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Install Vault
Installing Vault is simple. There are two approaches to installing Vault: downloading a precompiled binary for your system, or installing from source.
Downloading a precompiled binary is easiest, and we provide downloads over TLS along with SHA256 sums to verify the binary is what we say it is. We also distribute a PGP signature with the SHA256 sums that can be verified. However, we use a 3rd party storage host, and some people feel that due to the importance of security with Vault, they'd rather compile it from source.
For this reason, we also document on this page how to compile Vault from source, from the same versions of all dependent libraries that we used for the official builds.
Precompiled Binaries
To install the precompiled binary, download the appropriate package for your system. Vault is currently packaged as a zip file. We don't have any near term plans to provide system packages.
Once the zip is downloaded, unzip it into any directory. The
vault binary inside is all that is necessary to run Vault (or
vault.exe for Windows). Any additional files, if any, aren't
required to run Vault.
Copy the binary to anywhere on your system. If you intend to access it
from the command-line, make sure to place it somewhere on your PATH.
Compiling from Source
Check Vault's README on GitHub for up-to-date information about compiling Go from source.