Get cleos without building EOS?

Question

I cloned the EOS repository from github and am trying to get cleos installed based on the wiki.

When I get to the step for ./eosio_build.sh I don't have enough space because of my small SSD:

ARCHITECTURE Linux

OS name: Ubuntu OS Version: 16.04 CPU speed: 1099 MHz: MHz:Mhz CPU cores: 4 Physical Memory: 15929 Mgb Disk space total: 204G Disk space available: 75G You must have at least 100GB of available storage to install EOSIO. exiting now

What is the easiest way to setup cleos if I don't need to run a node?

Answer 1

On Mac OSX

brew tap eosio/eosio
brew install eosio

On Ubuntu 18.04

wget https://github.com/eosio/eos/releases/download/v2.0.6/eosio_2.0.6-1-ubuntu-18.04_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./eosio_2.0.6-1-ubuntu-18.04_amd64.deb

On Ubuntu 16.04

wget https://github.com/eosio/eos/releases/download/v2.0.6/eosio_2.0.6-1-ubuntu-16.04_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./eosio_2.0.6-1-ubuntu-16.04_amd64.deb

Answer 2

Instead of compiling EOS yourself you could download a prebuilt Docker container, here are some instructions for how to do that with EOS:

https://www.eosdocs.io/dappdevelopment/software/docker/

I'd recommend doing a basic Docker tutorial first though to understand the basics of that if you're not familiar with it yet.

Answer 3

One very workable alternative to using cleos at all is the eosc tool, at https://github.com/eoscanada/eosc

It is implemented in Go and is not dependent on the EOSIO toolchain.