Installing RF Swift

To install RF Swift, you have to choice using the pre-compiled binary wrapper depending on your system and pull an existing container image, or to compile the Go project and/or the Docker images from sources.

Warning

Even if the project, could work on macOS with some manual workaround, we do not adverstise it for the moment, but this system will be a 100% supported anytime soon.

This documentation guides you through different steps you can follow to be running the project smoothly.

First, you need to get or compile the rfswift binary, and then pull or bake your own Docker images.

Requirements

The minimum requirements to run the project are the following:

Docker is needed at least to run RF Swift containers. It can be directly your prefered package manager, such as APT or installed manually.

Tip

From Linux systems, Docker can be installed quickly and easily with the following command-line:

curl -fsSL "https://get.docker.com/" | sh

Other dependencies will be also needed such as:

  • xhost to install depending on your distribution

  • pulseaudio to install depending on your distribution

Then RF Swift can be used directly from the precompiled binary, or compile from source.

RF Swift binary

Option 1. Pre-compiled binary

You can also use one of our precompiled binaries directly to use RF Swift.

For that, download the latest binary depending on your architectures.

On Linux you’ll have to change the right to make it executable:

Option 2. Compiling from source

To install RF Swift from source, you will have to clone the following Git project:

git clone https://github.com/PentHertz/RF-Swift.git

If you want to compile the project, Golang will be also a requirement, but using the provided installation script in the root directory:

./build.sh
[+] Installing Go
...
[+] Building RF Switch Go Project
...

Here is an example using Linux:

After building the Go binary is built, we can pull an existing image, or build one from available Docker files, or also bake one of our own!

Warning

When the installation script asks for a name to build an image (e.g: Enter image tag value) you can skip it to use prebuilt Docker images to avoid long compilation time, and use pull command using rfswift.