Installing Neo-CLI

You can choose one of the following ways to install Neo-CLI:

Install the official Neo-CLI released package
or publish Neo-CLI source code from GitHub into an executable file. If you use macOS, this way is highly recommended.

This document will describe the two installation ways.

Hardware requirements

The following table lists the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for the computer running Neo-CLI.

	Minimum	Recommended	Optimum
System	Windows 10 Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 CentOS 7.4/7.6	Windows 10 Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 CentOS 7.4/7.6	Windows 10 Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 CentOS 7.4/7.6
CPU	Dual core	Quad core	Eight core
Memory	8G	16G	32G
Hard Disk	50G SSD hard drive	100G SSD hard drive	500G SSD hard drive

Installing the Neo-CLI package

Download the latest Neo-CLI package according to your operating system on Github and unzip it.
On Linux, install the LevelDB and SQLite3 dev packages. For example, on ubuntu 18.04 run the following:
```
sudo apt-get install libleveldb-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libunwind8-dev 
```
If using Windows, you can skip this step as those files are already included in the installation package.

Publishing from Neo-CLI source code

You can download and compile the Neo-CLI source directly from Github.

Setting up Neo-CLI on Windows

Installing required files

On Windows 10 install .NET Core and .NET Framework .
Git clone Neo-CLI source code from Github or using the following command:
```
$ git clone https://github.com/neo-project/neo-node/tree/master-2.x 
```
Download LevelDB and unzip the package for later use.

Building the executable file

Run the following command in the command line:

cd neo-cli
dotnet restore
dotnet publish -c release -r win10-x64
//Enter the directory where the compiled files are stored and copy the libleveldb.dll downloaded before to here.

Setting up Neo-CLI on Linux

Installing required files

On Linux (ubuntu 18.04) install .NET Core Runtime .
Git clone Neo-CLI source code from Github or using the following command:
```
$ git clone https://github.com/neo-project/neo-node/tree/master-2.x 
```

Run the following command to install levelDB:

sudo apt-get install libleveldb-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev

Building the executable file

Run the following command in the command line:

cd neo-cli
dotnet restore
dotnet publish -c release -r linux-x64

Setting up Neo-CLI on macOS

Installing required files

Git clone Neo-CLI source code from Github or use the following commands:
```
$ git clone -b master-2.x https://github.com/neo-project/neo-node.git 
```
Download LevelDB and unzip the package for later use.
Install Visual Studio for Mac .

Building the executable file

Run the following in the command line:

cd neo-cli
dotnet restore
dotnet publish -c release -r osx-x64
//Enter the directory where the compiled files are stored and copy the libleveldb.dll downloaded before to here.