#getting-started

SilverBullet is distributed as a single server binary available for the following platforms:

• macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) (platform name “darwin”)
• Linux (x86_64 and arm64) (note that this will run on Raspberry Pi as well, but requires a 64-bit Linux distribution)
• Windows (64-bit)

Steps: 1. Download the binary for your platform from Github. 2. Unzip the file in a convenient place 3. Run it from the command line (see below)

You need to create a folder to hold your Space|space files. This folder can be kept anywhere. You can then run silverbullet taking the folder path as an argument:

mkdir space
# Run SilverBullet on port 3000 (default)
./silverbullet -p3000 space

There are a bunch of Install/Configuration options you can pass as environment variables.

Upgrading

You can upgrade your SilverBullet install based on the version you’d like to run.

To upgrade to the latest stable release:

./silverbullet upgrade

To upgrade to the latest edge release (which keeps in sync with the main development branch):

./silverbullet upgrade-edge

To upgrade your client, be sure to refresh your page twice somewhat slowly.

Version

To check which version of SilverBullet you’re running, run the ${widgets.commandButton("Client: Version")} command.