# Installation guide

Download and extract precompiled binary for your OS and platform from the releases page on GitHub

Alternatively, you can compile from source code (Golang 1.20+ required)

    make receptor

Test the installation with

    receptor --help
    receptor --version

The preferred way to interact with receptor nodes is to use the receptorctl command line tool

    pip install receptorctl

receptorctl will be used in various places throughout this documentation.