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This guide will help you to install the Fuel toolchain binaries and prerequisites.

This guide covers the following topics:

Icon LinkInstalling Rust

The Fuel toolchain is built on top of the Rust programming language. To install Rust, you can use the rustup tool.

Run the following command in your shell; this downloads and runs rustup-init.sh, which in turn downloads and runs the correct version of the rustup-init executable for your platform.

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

Check the official Rust documentation to get more information on installing the Rust toolchain Icon Link.

Icon LinkInstalling the Fuel toolchain using fuelup

fuelup is the official package manager for Fuel that installs the Fuel toolchain from the official release channels, enabling you to easily switch between different toolchains and keep them updated. It makes building and maintaining Sway applications. simpler with forc and fuel-core Icon Link for common platforms.

💡 Check out the fuelup docs for more information.

Icon LinkRunning fuelup-init

To install the Fuel toolchain, you'll use the fuelup-init script. This will install forc, forc-client, forc-fmt, forc-lsp, forc-wallet as well as fuel-core in ~/.fuelup/bin.

👉 Just paste the following line in your terminal and press Enter.

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://install.fuel.network/fuelup-init.sh | sh

🚧 Be aware that currently we do not natively support Windows. If you wish to use fuelup on Windows, please use Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Icon LinkSetup PATH

Once the script is downloaded, it will be executed automatically. The fuelup-init script will prompt you with the question below:

fuelup uses "/home/username/.fuelup" as its home directory to manage the Fuel toolchain, and will install binaries there.

To use the toolchain, you will have to configure your PATH, which tells your machine where to locate `fuelup` and the Fuel toolchain.

If permitted, fuelup-init will configure your PATH for you by running the following:

    echo "export PATH="$HOME/.fuelup/bin:$PATH"" >> /home/username/.bashrc

Would you like fuelup-init to modify your PATH variable for you? (N/y)

👉 Press the Y key in your terminal and press Enter to modify your PATH.

Icon LinkChecking the installation

After allowing the fuelup-init script to modify your PATH variable, you will see a lot of information about packages being downloaded and installed. If everything goes as expected you will see the following message:

The Fuel toolchain is installed and up to date

fuelup 0.19.5 has been installed in /home/username/.fuelup/bin. 
To fetch the latest toolchain containing the forc and fuel-core binaries, run 'fuelup toolchain install latest'. 
To generate completions for your shell, run 'fuelup completions --shell=SHELL'.

👉 Use fuelup --version any time to check which version of the package you are using.

 fuelup --version

That will output your current fuelup version:

fuelup 0.19.5

Icon LinkSetting up a default toolchain

Just as in Rust Icon Link, Fuel supports multiple toolchains. A toolchain is a collection of tools (such as the compiler, lsp, etc). By default, fuelup includes a series of toolchain with packages tested to work with each other, providing a reliable set of tools.

In this case, we will install the beta-4 toolchain, which is the stable toolchain compatible with the beta-4 network. For more information on beta-4 check the Fuel blog Icon Link page.

Icon LinkUpdating fuelup

Make sure you have the latest version of fuelup so you can access the latest features and have the best performance.

👉 Update fuelup by running the following command:

fuelup self update

Then you will get an output like this:

Fetching binary from https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuelup/releases/download/v0.19.5/fuelup-0.19.5-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
Downloading component fuelup without verifying checksum
Unpacking and moving fuelup to /var/folders/tp/0l8zdx9j4s9_n609ykwxl0qw0000gn/T/.tmpiNJQHt
Moving /var/folders/tp/0l8zdx9j4s9_n609ykwxl0qw0000gn/T/.tmpiNJQHt/fuelup to /Users/.fuelup/bin/fuelup

Icon LinkInstalling the beta-4 toolchain

The beta-4 network is the latest Fuel testnet. This includes public infrastructure such as the Beta-4 faucet Icon Link and the Beta-4 GraphQL endpoint Icon Link.

To properly interact with the beta-4 network it is necessary to use its corresponding toolchain.

👉 Run the following command to install the beta-4 toolchain:

fuelup toolchain install beta-4

If the toolchain was successfully installed, you will see this output:

The Fuel toolchain is installed and up to date

The toolchain was installed correctly, however is not in use yet. Next, you need to configure fuelup to use the beta-4 toolchain as the default.

👉 Set beta-4 as your default toolchain with the following command:

fuelup default beta-4

You will get the following output indicating that you have successfully set beta-4 as your default toolchain.

default toolchain set to 'beta-4'

Icon LinkChecking your current toolchain

Sometimes you might end up using multiple toolchains at once. Don't worry if you get confused about which toolchain you are using, since you can check your current toolchain anytime.

👉 Run the fuelup show command to see the toolchain and the versions of each tool you are using.

fuelup show

This command will give you the following output

active toolchain
-----------------
beta-4-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (default)
  forc : 0.45.0
    - forc-client
      - forc-deploy : 0.45.0
      - forc-run : 0.45.0
    - forc-doc : 0.45.0
    - forc-explore : 0.28.1
    - forc-fmt : 0.45.0
    - forc-index : 0.20.7
    - forc-lsp : 0.45.0
    - forc-tx : 0.45.0
    - forc-wallet : 0.3.0
  fuel-core : 0.20.4
  fuel-core-keygen : Error getting version string
  fuel-indexer : 0.20.7

fuels versions
---------------
forc : 0.45
forc-wallet : 0.45