Installation

Installing rdc is three steps: open the install page, pick your operating system, paste the command into your terminal. The whole thing usually finishes in a minute or two.

Watch the tutorial

The three steps

1. Open the installation page.
2. Pick your operating system.
3. Copy the install command and paste it into your terminal.

Install on your platform

The installation page generates the right command for you, but here are the canonical one-liners.

Linux / macOS:

time curl -fsSL https://www.rediacc.com/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell):

iwr -useb https://www.rediacc.com/install.ps1 | iex

The time prefix is a shell trick that prints how long a command took. We use it across this series so you can see the real speed of every step. It’s optional. Drop it if you don’t want it.

Verify the install

Once the script finishes, check that everything rdc needs is present:

time rdc doctor

rdc doctor walks through Node, SSH, and the rest of rdc’s dependencies and reports any gaps.

Why rdc lives on your laptop

rdc is the CLI on your laptop. The server runs a separate component called renet, which rdc provisions and drives over SSH. You never need to SSH into a server manually. rdc does it for you.

We’ll set that up properly in the next two tutorials.

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Next: SSH Key Configuration.