Running from sources allows you to have a closer look at its internals and to try all the latest features while they're being developed. It's important to note that, unless you really know what you're doing, you'll be much better off using our bundled binaries.

To run yagna from sources, you'll need to have rust development environment installed - it will be needed to run the yagna daemon itself. If you don't have it, please refer to the docs to install it: https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started​

Afterwards, you'll need to launch the yagna service.

First, clone the yagna repository from: https://github.com/golemfactory/yagna/​

git clone https://github.com/golemfactory/yagna.git

Once you have it cloned and checked out, enter its directory and: first, copy the template environment file onto a proper .env file:

cp .env-template .env

then run:

cargo run service run

This command will build yagna using the Rust compiler (which might take a considerable time unless you're working on a really fast machine) and once it's built, will subsequently launch it.

Once the daemon launches, it will start emitting some debug messages among which one of the first ones will look like:

[2020-07-16T12:11:33Z INFO yagna] Starting yagna service! .

There you go! You have successfully started the yagna daemon and can use it to connect to the Golem network, run our examples and develop your own Golem apps.

Build the gftp binary

If you're running yagna from source, then you won't have the gftp binary around and you need to also build it yourself. To do so, once again, go to your yagna source directory and execute:

cd core/gftp
cargo install --path .

This will build and install the gftp binary for you.