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Development environment

This tutorial will go over setting up your development environment to run Celestia software. This environment can be used for development, building binaries, and running nodes.

Install dependencies​

Once you have setup your instance, ssh into the instance to begin installing the dependencies needed to run a node.

First, make sure to update and upgrade the OS:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

These are essential packages that are necessary to execute many tasks like downloading files, compiling, and monitoring the node:

sudo apt install curl tar wget clang pkg-config libssl-dev jq build-essential git make ncdu -y

Install Golang​

Celestia-app and celestia-node are written in Golang so we must install Golang to build and run them.

ver="1.19.1" 
cd $HOME 
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz" 
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go 
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz" 
rm "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"

Now we need to add the /usr/local/go/bin directory to $PATH:

echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile

To check if Go was installed correctly run:

go version

The output should be the version installed:

go version go1.19.1 linux/amd64