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