Installing AvalancheGo Using the Script
Running the Script
So, now that you prepared your system and have the info ready, let's get to it.
To download and run the script, enter the following in the terminal:
wget -nd -m https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ava-labs/avalanche-docs/master/scripts/avalanchego-installer.sh;\
chmod 755 avalanchego-installer.sh;\
./avalanchego-installer.sh
And we're off! The output should look something like this:
Click to see the Terminal output
AvalancheGo installer
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Preparing environment...
Found arm64 architecture...
Looking for the latest arm64 build...
Will attempt to download:
https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/releases/download/v1.1.1/avalanchego-linux-arm64-v1.1.1.tar.gz
avalanchego-linux-arm64-v1.1.1.tar.gz 100%[=========================================================================>] 29.83M 75.8MB/s in 0.4s
2020-12-28 14:57:47 URL:https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/246387644/f4d27b00-4161-11eb-8fb2-156a992fd2c8?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20201228%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20201228T145747Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=ea838877f39ae940a37a076137c4c2689494c7e683cb95a5a4714c062e6ba018&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&key_id=0&repo_id=246387644&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Davalanchego-linux-arm64-v1.1.1.tar.gz&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream [31283052/31283052] -> "avalanchego-linux-arm64-v1.1.1.tar.gz" [1]
Unpacking node files...
avalanchego-v1.1.1/plugins/
avalanchego-v1.1.1/plugins/evm
avalanchego-v1.1.1/avalanchego
Node files unpacked into /home/ubuntu/avalanche-node
And then the script will prompt you for information about the network environment:
To complete the setup some networking information is needed.
Where is the node installed:
1) residential network (dynamic IP)
2) cloud provider (static IP)
Enter your connection type [1,2]:
Enter 1 if you have dynamic IP, and 2 if you have a static IP. If you are on
a static IP, it will try to auto-detect the IP and ask for confirmation.
Detected '3.15.152.14' as your public IP. Is this correct? [y,n]:
Confirm with y, or n if the detected IP is wrong (or empty), and then enter
the correct IP at the next prompt.
Next, you have to set up RPC port access for your node. Those are used to query the node for its internal state, to send commands to the node, or to interact with the platform and its chains (sending transactions, for example). You will be prompted:
RPC port should be public (this is a public API node) or private (this is a validator)? [public, private]:
private: this setting only allows RPC requests from the node machine itself.public: this setting exposes the RPC port to all network interfaces.
As this is a sensitive setting you will be asked to confirm if choosing
public. Please read the following note carefully:
If you choose to allow RPC requests on any network interface you will need
to set up a firewall to only let through RPC requests from known IP addresses,
otherwise your node will be accessible to anyone and might be overwhelmed by
RPC calls from malicious actors! If you do not plan to use your node to send
RPC calls remotely, enter private.
The script will then prompt you to choose whether to enable state sync setting or not:
Do you want state sync bootstrapping to be turned on or off? [on, off]:
Turning state sync on will greatly increase the speed of bootstrapping, but
will sync only the current network state. If you intend to use your node for
accessing historical data (archival node) you should select off. Otherwise,
select on. Validators can be bootstrapped with state sync turned on.
The script will then continue with system service creation and finish with starting the service.
Click to see the final output
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/avalanchego.service → /etc/systemd/system/avalanchego.service.
Done!
Your node should now be bootstrapping.
Node configuration file is /home/ubuntu/.avalanchego/configs/node.json
C-Chain configuration file is /home/ubuntu/.avalanchego/configs/chains/C/config.json
Plugin directory, for storing subnet VM binaries, is /home/ubuntu/.avalanchego/plugins
To check that the service is running use the following command (q to exit):
sudo systemctl status avalanchego
To follow the log use (ctrl-c to stop):
sudo journalctl -u avalanchego -f
Reach us over on https://chat.avax.network if you're having problems.
The script is finished, and you should see the system prompt again.
Post Installation
AvalancheGo should be running in the background as a service. You can check that it's running with:
sudo systemctl status avalanchego
Below is an example of what the node's latest logs should look like:
Click to expand and see the Logs
● avalanchego.service - AvalancheGo systemd service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/avalanchego.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2021-01-05 10:38:21 UTC; 51s ago
Main PID: 2142 (avalanchego)
Tasks: 8 (limit: 4495)
Memory: 223.0M
CGroup: /system.slice/avalanchego.service
└─2142 /home/ubuntu/avalanche-node/avalanchego --public-ip-resolution-service=opendns --http-host=
Jan 05 10:38:45 ip-172-31-30-64 avalanchego[2142]: INFO [01-05|10:38:45] <P Chain> avalanchego/vms/platformvm/vm.go#322: initializing last accepted block as 2FUFPVPxbTpKNn39moGSzsmGroYES4NZRdw3mJgNvMkMiMHJ9e
Jan 05 10:38:45 ip-172-31-30-64 avalanchego[2142]: INFO [01-05|10:38:45] <P Chain> avalanchego/snow/engine/snowman/transitive.go#58: initializing consensus engine
Jan 05 10:38:45 ip-172-31-30-64 avalanchego[2142]: INFO [01-05|10:38:45] avalanchego/api/server.go#143: adding route /ext/bc/11111111111111111111111111111111LpoYY
Jan 05 10:38:45 ip-172-31-30-64 avalanchego[2142]: INFO [01-05|10:38:45] avalanchego/api/server.go#88: HTTP API server listening on ":9650"
Jan 05 10:38:58 ip-172-31-30-64 avalanchego[2142]: INFO [01-05|10:38:58] <P Chain> avalanchego/snow/engine/common/bootstrapper.go#185: Bootstrapping started syncing with 1 vertices in the accepted frontier
Jan 05 10:39:02 ip-172-31-30-64 avalanchego[2142]: INFO [01-05|10:39:02] <P Chain> avalanchego/snow/engine/snowman/bootstrap/bootstrapper.go#210: fetched 2500 blocks
Jan 05 10:39:04 ip-172-31-30-64 avalanchego[2142]: INFO [01-05|10:39:04] <P Chain> avalanchego/snow/engine/snowman/bootstrap/bootstrapper.go#210: fetched 5000 blocks
Jan 05 10:39:06 ip-172-31-30-64 avalanchego[2142]: INFO [01-05|10:39:06] <P Chain> avalanchego/snow/engine/snowman/bootstrap/bootstrapper.go#210: fetched 7500 blocks
Jan 05 10:39:09 ip-172-31-30-64 avalanchego[2142]: INFO [01-05|10:39:09] <P Chain> avalanchego/snow/engine/snowman/bootstrap/bootstrapper.go#210: fetched 10000 blocks
Jan 05 10:39:11 ip-172-31-30-64 avalanchego[2142]: INFO [01-05|10:39:11] <P Chain> avalanchego/snow/engine/snowman/bootstrap/bootstrapper.go#210: fetched 12500 blocks
Note the active (running) which indicates the service is running OK. You may
need to press q to return to the command prompt.
To find out your NodeID, which is used to identify your node to the network, run the following command:
sudo journalctl -u avalanchego | grep "NodeID"
It will produce output like:
Jan 05 10:38:38 ip-172-31-30-64 avalanchego[2142]: INFO [01-05|10:38:38] avalanchego/node/node.go#428: Set node's ID to 6seStrauyCnVV7NEVwRbfaT9B6EnXEzfY
Prepend NodeID- to the value to get, for example,
NodeID-6seStrauyCnVV7NEVwRbfaT9B6EnXEzfY. Store that; it will be needed for
staking or looking up your node.
Your node should be in the process of bootstrapping now. You can monitor the progress by issuing the following command:
sudo journalctl -u avalanchego -f
Press ctrl+C when you wish to stop reading node output.
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