# Installation guide

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

Alternatively, you can compile Receptor from source code (Golang 1.22+ required)

    make receptor

Test the installation with the following commands:

    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.