Add info on where to download binaries to our install docs

[evan-forbes]

          Perhaps we should be adding some of this information to our public docs

Originally posted by @cmwaters in #2654 (review)

cc @jcstein

[jcstein]

hiya, where are your install docs? or is this solely referring to adding prebuilt binary downloads as option to the documentation site?

https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/releases/download/v1.0.0/celestia-app_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz

quick version:

# Define the version and tarball URL
VER="v1.0.0"
URL="https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/releases/download/$VER/celestia-app_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz"

# Navigate to your home directory (or any other directory where you want to download the tarball)
cd $HOME

# Download the tarball
wget "$URL"

# Extract the tarball to a directory of your choice (for example, /usr/local)
# Note: You might need to adjust the directory and/or permissions, depending on your setup
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "celestia-app_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz"

# Remove the tarball to clean up
rm "celestia-app_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz"

# Now, you can navigate to the directory where the Celestia app was extracted, and run the app from there
cd /usr/local/  # Adjust this path based on where the tarball was extracted
chmod +x celestia-appd  # Make the binary executable, if necessary
./celestia-appd version  # Run the app and check version

[rootulp]

hiya, where are your install docs?

There exists an Install section in the celestia-app README.md.

or is this solely referring to adding prebuilt binary downloads as option to the documentation site?

Yea, I think the issue wants to add pre-build binaries to the docs site. Potentially near Installing celestia-app b/c users don't strictly need to do the git clone method, they can use a pre-built binary. As for the docs content, I like what you proposed above! Thanks for drafting so quickly.

Note: with a PR that just merged, pre-built binaries should be created for:

• Operating systems: Darwin (Apple), Linux
• Architectures: x86_64 (amd64), arm64

so we may want to slightly modify the first step to:

# Modify VERSION to the celestia-app version you would like to install.
VERSION="v1.0.0"

# Modify PLATFORM based on the operating system and architecture of the machine you are installing celestia-app on.
# Ex. Linux_x86_64, Darwin_x86_64, Linux_arm64, Darwin_arm64
PLATFORM="Linux_x86_64"

URL="https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/releases/download/$VERSION/celestia-app_$PLATFORM.tar.gz"

Based on

From https://github.com/rootulp/celestia-app/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc5

[jcstein]

awesome, thanks @rootulp! I'll go ahead and try to rework that script to detect architecture, and go from there. for now, i'll plan just to add this in Documentation site for now. but can also add to celestia-app Install section if appropriate

[jcstein]

picking this up

[jcstein]

It looks like the binaries weren't published for v1.2.0, and I see the related issues to that.

I have a script in the works, that detects OS/arch, and pulls the latest release. And it's working!

./install.sh
Working from temporary directory: /Users/joshcs/celestia-temp
Latest version detected: v1.2.0
Downloading from: https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/releases/download/v1.2.0/celestia-app_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz
--2023-10-25 14:38:49--  https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/releases/download/v1.2.0/celestia-app_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 140.82.114.4
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.114.4|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2023-10-25 14:38:49 ERROR 404: Not Found.

Download failed. Exiting.

Here's an example that uses a hard-coded variable for v1.1.0 instead

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/celestiaorg/devrel-tools/jcs/celestia-app-prebuilt-binaries/celestia-app/install-temp.sh | bash

[jcstein]

cooking now. added a checksum verification! here are the logs from that run

[jcstein]

and lastly, cleaned up verbose logs and stored in log file

./install-temp.sh
Log file is located at: /Users/joshcs/celestia-temp/logfile.log
Working from temporary directory: /Users/joshcs/celestia-temp
Latest version detected: v1.1.0
Downloading from: https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/releases/download/v1.1.0/celestia-app_Darwin_arm64.tar.gz
Checksum verification successful.
Binary extracted to: /Users/joshcs/celestia-temp
Temporary files cleaned up.
You can navigate to /Users/joshcs/celestia-temp to find and run the Celestia app.
To run the app and check its version, you may execute the following commands:
  cd /Users/joshcs/celestia-temp
  chmod +x celestia-appd
  ./celestia-appd version

[rootulp]

Josh completed this in celestiaorg/docs#1198.
The docs are live at https://docs.celestia.org/nodes/celestia-app#installing-a-pre-built-binary