If only the json-rpc API server is needed the recommended way to install LBRY is to use a pre-built binary. We provide binaries for all major operating systems. See the README.
These instructions are for installing LBRY from source, which is recommended if you are interested in doing development work or LBRY is not available on your operating system (godspeed, TempleOS users).
Here's a video walkthrough of this setup which is itself hosted by the LBRY network and provided via spee.ch:
Running lbrynet from source requires Python 3.6 or higher (3.7 is preferred). Get the installer for your OS here
After installing python 3 you'll need to install some additional libraries depending on your operating system.
Once python 3 is installed run python3 -m pip install virtualenv to install virtualenv.
Windows users will need to install Visual C++ Build Tools, which can be installed by [Microsoft Build Tools](Microsoft Build Tools 2015)
macOS users will need to install xcode command line tools and homebrew.
Remaining dependencies can then be installed by running:
brew install python3 protobuf
On Ubuntu (we recommend 18.04), install the following:
sudo apt-get install build-essential python3.7 python3.7-dev git python-virtualenv libssl-dev python-protobuf
On Raspbian, you will also need to install python-pyparsing.
If you're running another Linux flavor, install the equivalent of the above packages for your system.
To install:
git clone https://github.com/lbryio/lbry.git
cd lbry
virtualenv lbry-venv --python=python3.7
source lbry-venv/bin/activate
python --version # Python 2 is not supported. Make sure you're on Python 3.7
pip install --editable .[test] # [test] installs extras needed for running the tests
To verify your install, which lbrynet should return a path inside of the lbry-venv folder created by the virtualenv command.
To run the unit tests from the repo directory:
trial --reactor=asyncio tests.unit
To start the API server:
lbrynet start
Happy hacking!