Installing RNP

Binaries that will be installed:

rnp
rnpkeys

On NixOS or Nix package manager

We provide a Nix package for easy installation on NixOS and any OS with Nix installed (including Linux and macOS, even NixOS on WSL).

nix-env -iA nixpkgs.rnp

With Nix Flakes

We provide a Nix flake.

nix profile install github:rnpgp/rnp

On macOS using Homebrew

We provide a Homebrew tap for easy installation of RNP on macOS.

brew tap rnpgp/rnp
brew install rnp

On RHEL and CentOS via YUM

We provide pre-built packages for RHEL and CentOS at our YUM repository hosted at GitHub.

rpm --import https://github.com/riboseinc/yum/raw/master/ribose-packages.pub
rpm --import https://github.com/riboseinc/yum/raw/master/ribose-packages-next.pub
curl -L https://github.com/riboseinc/yum/raw/master/ribose.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/ribose.repo
yum install -y rnp

On Ubuntu

Prerequisites: please ensure git is installed on the system

# Clone the repository by version tag (or omit it to get the latest sources)
git clone https://github.com/rnpgp/rnp.git -b v0.17.0

Please ensure that you clone with submodules if you use a version higher then 0.16.2
git clone https://github.com/rnpgp/rnp.git --recurse-submodules --shallow-submodules

# Install required packages
sudo apt install g++-8 cmake libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev libjson-c-dev build-essential python-minimal

# Download, build and install Botan2
wget -qO- https://botan.randombit.net/releases/Botan-2.18.2.tar.xz | tar xvJ
cd Botan-2.18.2
./configure.py --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
cd ..

# CMake encourages building outside of the source directory.
mkdir rnp-build
cd rnp-build

# Run CMake
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=on -DBUILD_TESTING=off ../rnp/

# Compile
make

# Install
sudo make install

On Debian

Prerequisite: please ensure git is installed on the system.

# Clone the repository by version tag (or omit it to get the latest sources)
git clone https://github.com/rnpgp/rnp.git -b v0.17.0

Please ensure that you clone with submodules if you use a version higher then 0.16.2
git clone https://github.com/rnpgp/rnp.git --recurse-submodules --shallow-submodules

# Enable access to `testing` packages by editing /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main

# Install required packages
sudo apt install g++-8 cmake libbz2-dev zlib1g-dev libjson-c-dev \
  libbotan-2-dev build-essential

# Cmake recommend out-of-source builds
mkdir rnp-build
cd rnp-build

# Cmake it
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=on -DBUILD_TESTING=off ../rnp/

# Compile and install
sudo make install

On Gentoo Linux

RNP is present in the official Gentoo repository under the name dev-util/librnp.

emerge -av dev-util/librnp

Compile from source

Clone this repo, or download a release and expand it.

Enter the source folder and run the following commands:

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=on -DBUILD_TESTING=off  .

make install

On Windows

Using MSYS/MinGW

From a clean MSYS2 install, please first update pacman and install required packages via the msys console.

pacman -Syu --noconfirm --needed

# Most likely you'll need to close msys console and run it again:
pacman -Syu --noconfirm --needed

# Install packages
pacman --noconfirm -S --needed tar zlib-devel libbz2-devel git automake autoconf libtool automake-wrapper make pkg-config mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-json-c mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-libbotan mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-python3

Then clone the RNP repository and build it.

Please ensure that you clone with submodules if you use a version higher then 0.16.2 git clone https://github.com/rnpgp/rnp.git --recurse-submodules --shallow-submodules

# CMake encourages building outside of the source directory.
mkdir rnp-build
cd rnp-build

# Add paths to PATH so dependency dll/lib files can be found
export PATH="/c/msys64/mingw64/lib:/c/msys64/mingw64/bin:$PWD/bin:$PATH"

# Run CMake
cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=yes -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DBUILD_TESTING=off ../rnp

# Compile and install
make && make install

Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and vcpkg

Install vcpkg according to these instructions:

Set the VCPKG_ROOT environment variable to the vcpkg root folder.

For botan backend:

vcpkg install --triplet x64-windows bzip2 zlib botan json-c getopt dirent python3[core,enable-shared]

For openssl backend:

vcpkg install --triplet x64-windows bzip2 zlib botan json-c getopt dirent python3[core,enable-shared]

If you need to target 32-bit platform you’ll need to to replace x64-windows with x86-windows.

The following steps will perform a console build for CMake using Visual Studio 2019 CMake generator:

cmake -B build -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=%VCPKG_ROOT%\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTING=off -DCRYPTO_BACKEND="botan" .
cmake --build . --config Release
cmake --install .

Replace CRYPTO_BACKEND parameter to "openssl" if you target this backend.

Ensure that the following dependencies are available on path:

librnp.dll
botan.dll or libcrypto.dll depending on target backend and architecture
bz2.dll
getopt.dll
json-c.dll
zlib1.dll

Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and pre-installed libraries

Install dependencies and make them available either on PATH or using CMAKE_TARGET_PREFIX parameter:

Botan(2.14+) or Crypto (OpenSSL 1.1.1+) depending on target backend
BZip2
GetOpt
JSON-C (0.12.1+)
ZLIB

If openssl backend is used note that your environment may have another ("default") openssl installation. In such case use OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR.

The following steps will perform a console build for CMake using Visual Studio 2019 CMake generator:

cmake -B build -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -A x64 -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=<openssl root> -DCMAKE_TARGET_PREFIX=<target prefix> \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTING=off -DCRYPTO_BACKEND="botan" .
cmake --build . --config Release
cmake --install .

Replace CRYPTO_BACKEND parameter to "openssl" if you target this backend, use OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR and CMAKE_TARGET_PREFIX optionally as explained above