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Installation

This page covers installation for the two-binary FlowLayer architecture:

  • server runtime (flowlayer-server)
  • official terminal client (flowlayer-client-tui)

Prerequisites​

  • Go toolchain installed locally.
  • A local development environment where you can run host processes.

Install the FlowLayer server​

From the server repository root:

go build -o flowlayer-server ./cmd/flowlayer

This is the canonical build-from-source path documented by the server repository.

GitHub Releases placeholder: https://github.com/FlowLayer/docs/releases

Optional version check:

./flowlayer-server --version

For downloadable artifacts, the server executable name is flowlayer-server.

Install the official TUI client​

The official client binary name is flowlayer-client-tui.

Confirmed installation path from TUI sources:

  • Download a prebuilt binary from GitHub Releases for the TUI repository.

Optional version check:

./flowlayer-client-tui --version

Source path (development-oriented)​

The TUI repository documents running from source with Go:

go run . -addr 127.0.0.1:6999

When using downloadable artifacts, use flowlayer-server for the server and flowlayer-client-tui for the TUI.

Next step​

Continue with First Stack for a minimal server-first run and explicit TUI connection.