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Setting Up

Pre-Requisites​

There are a few things needed before installing.

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Perform the follow instructions as root or your admin account.

Create Vesta user​

sudo adduser --gecos "" vesta

Installing required tools​

This will install the necessary tools to build the vesta chain source, along with lz4 compression tool and jquery tool.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential lz4 jq

Installing Go​

Follow more in-depth instructions to install Go v1.19 or higher here.

On Ububtu you can install it with:

GOVER=$(curl https://go.dev/VERSION?m=text)
wget https://golang.org/dl/${GOVER}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go && sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf ${GOVER}.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Add the following golang path info to the current users ~/.profile.

Also add it to the skeleton profile so all new users have it. /etc/skel/.profile

# add environmental variables for Go
if [ -f "/usr/local/go/bin/go" ] ; then
    export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
    export GOPATH=${HOME}/go
    export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
    export PATH=${PATH}:${GOROOT}/bin:${GOBIN}
    export GO111MODULE=on
fi

Restarting the shell with your profile settings or just rebasing them like so is required.

source ~/.profile