2.Install the CLI

Install the CLI

You'll need the node 18.x and Java JRE 17 to run iridium locally

Download the release package:

$ wget https://github.com/IridiumIdentity/iridium/releases/download/v0.1.0-beta/iridium-0.1.0-beta-bin.tar.gz

Unzip the package

$ tar -xzf iridium-0.1.0-beta-bin.tar.gz

For the rest of this setup all commands are run from the root of the distribution folder, so switch to it:

$ cd iridium-0.1.0-beta-bin

Verify Installation

You can check that you successfully installed iridium by executing the cli tool

$ bin/iridium --help

Your output should be similar to the following

bin/iridium --help
Usage: iridium [-hV] [COMMAND]
iridium management cli
  -h, --help      Show this help message and exit.
  -V, --version   Print version information and exit.
Commands:
  init  inits the system
  run   run iridium

Now you can initialize Iridium