Installing Gekko #

NOTE: unfortunately installing and managing Gekko is hard. You will need to touch the commandline and install a few developer tools. I am creating an official Gekko service called Gekko Plus that will NOT require any installation.

Windows user? Please see the doc installing Gekko on windows instead.
Docker user? You can run Gekko in a docker container, see installing Gekko using Docker instead.
Server user? In order to run Gekko headless, see configuring Gekko on a server instead.

Here is a video of me explaining how to install Gekko the easiest way possible:

To get Gekko running you need to do the following:

install nodejs
install git
download Gekko
install Gekko & Gekko Broker dependencies

Installing nodejs #

Gekko requires nodejs to be installed. Go ahead and install this if it's not already (Gekko requires at least version 8.11.2). We advice to download the current LTS.

Installing git #

As part of Gekko's installation process git is used, see this guide for installation instructions. If you do not already have git on your system.

Downloading Gekko #

The recommended way of downloading Gekko is by using git. This makes keeping Gekko up to date a lot easier. Run this in a terminal:

git clone git://github.com/askmike/gekko.git -b stable
cd gekko

This will download the latest stable version of Gekko, remove the final -b stable part to download the current latest release (which might not be as stable).

Alternatively you can manually download the latest stable version of Gekko on the releases page.