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celestia-app

This tutorial will guide you through building celestia-app. This tutorial presumes you completed the steps in setting up your own environment here.

Install celestia-app​

The steps below will create a binary file named celestia-appd inside $HOME/go/bin folder which will be used later to run the node. Be sure to select the correct network to install the binary for.

cd $HOME 
rm -rf celestia-app 
git clone https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app.git 
cd celestia-app/ 
APP_VERSION=v0.12.1 
git checkout tags/$APP_VERSION -b $APP_VERSION 
make install

To check if the binary was successfully compiled you can run the binary using the --help flag:

celestia-appd --help

You should see a similar output (with helpful example commands):

Start celestia-app

Usage:
  celestia-appd [command]

Available Commands:
  add-genesis-account Add a genesis account to genesis.json
  collect-gentxs      Collect genesis txs and output a genesis.json file
  config              Create or query an application CLI configuration file
  debug               Tool for helping with debugging your application
  export              Export state to JSON
  gentx               Generate a genesis tx carrying a self delegation
  help                Help about any command
  init                Initialize private validator, p2p, genesis, and application configuration files
  keys                Manage your application's keys
  migrate             Migrate genesis to a specified target version
  query               Querying subcommands
  rollback            rollback tendermint state by one height
  rollback            rollback cosmos-sdk and tendermint state by one height
  start               Run the full node
  status              Query remote node for status
  tendermint          Tendermint subcommands
  tx                  Transactions subcommands
  validate-genesis    validates the genesis file at the default location or at the location passed as an arg
  version             Print the application binary version information

Flags:
  -h, --help                help for celestia-appd
      --home string         directory for config and data (default "/root/.celestia-app")
      --log_format string   The logging format (json|plain) (default "plain")
      --log_level string    The logging level (trace|debug|info|warn|error|fatal|panic) (default "info")
      --trace               print out full stack trace on errors

Use "celestia-appd [command] --help" for more information about a command.