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Install Loopd from source or the binaries

Install Loop

Loop comes bundled with Lightning Terminal (litd). If you are already running litd, you can access Loop through the command line or the Lightning Terminal UI and may skip the steps below.

Follow this guide to install Lightning Terminal

Installation

To run Loop you need to be running LND from the binary releases, or compile from source with the command make install tags="signrpc walletrpc chainrpc invoicesrpc"

Run the Binary

You can run Loop directly from the binary releases, which you can find here.

Compile from source

You can compile Loop from source. This requires Golang. Instructions for how to install Go can be found in the LND installation guide.

git clone https://github.com/lightninglabs/loop.git cd loop make && make install

Configuration

By default, the loopd.conf is placed in ~/.loop/mainnet/ If you are starting loopd on another network (e.g. loopd --network=signet), the configuration file is expected in the relevant directory (e.g. ~/.loop/signet). You may also pass a custom directory with the --configfile= flag.

External Loopd

You may run loopd on a separate machine and network as LND. You may have to first configure LND to listen on external IPs with lnd.rpclisten=0.0.0.0:10009, add your LND machine's IP address(es) to the TLS certificate with tlsextraip=, delete your existing tls.key and tls.cert and restart LND to regenerate the certificates.

In your loopd.conf, define the LND host (lnd.host=<ip>:10009), copy the LND admin macaroon and TLS certificate over and specify their path with lnd.macaroonpath=/path/to/admin.macaroon and lnd.tlspath=/path/to/tls.cert