Skip to content

Build from source

Warning

This guide will not work on NixOS, please follow the NixOS guide instead!

Step 1. Install rustup

To build rapd, you need to install rustup. The following terminal command will install it 

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Step 2. Install required librarys

RAPD will require the following libraries/tools installed on your system:

  • PulseAudio, if using pipewire the pulseaudio pipewire plugin needs to be installed
  • GCC
  • Git

Step 3. Clone RAPD source code

You can clone the rapd source code with git as shown below 

git clone https://github.com/Interfiber/rapd.git

Step 4. Build the source code

You can build the source code using cargo, the output binary will be located at target/debug/rapd, or target/release/rapd 

cargo build # build debug
cargo build --release # build release

Step 5. Move the binary into your PATH

Now mv the binary into a location in your PATH, such as /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, or somewhere that you specified to be in your path.