Avalanche (EN)

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• Requirements
• Launching
• Docker
• Automatically (one line install)
• Manually
• Useful commands
• Useful URLs
• Thanks

Requirements

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⠀Recommended:

• CPU: Equivalent of 8 AWS vCPU
• RAM: 16 GB
• Storage: 200 GB
• OS: Ubuntu 18.04/20.04

Launching

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Docker

⠀Install Docker

. <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SecorD0/utils/main/docker_installer.sh)

⠀Install image

docker pull secord/avalanche:latest

⠀Run a node

docker run -it --restart=always --name=avalanche_node -d secord/avalanche:latest

⠀Add a command to view a node log in the system as a variable

. <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SecorD0/utils/main/insert_variable.sh) -n "avalanche_log" -v "docker logs avalanche_node -fn 100" -a

Automatically (one line install)

⠀Execute the script

. <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SecorD0/Avalanche/main/installer.sh)

Manually

⠀Update packages

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y 

⠀Install required packages

sudo apt install jq pkg-config build-essential libssl-dev -y

⠀Download the node binary

cd; \
avalanche_version=`wget -qO- https://api.github.com/repos/ava-labs/avalanchego/releases/latest | jq -r ".tag_name"`; \
wget "https://github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/releases/download/$avalanche_version/avalanchego-linux-amd64-$avalanche_version.tar.gz"

⠀Unzip the archive

tar -xvf "avalanchego-linux-amd64-$avalanche_version.tar.gz"

⠀Rename node directory

mv $HOME`find / -name "avalanchego*" -type d -printf '/%f'` $HOME/avalanche

⠀Make avalanchego executable

chmod +x $HOME/avalanche/avalanchego

⠀Create a node service file

sudo tee <<EOF >/dev/null /etc/systemd/system/avalanched.service
[Unit]
Description=Avalanche Node
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$HOME/avalanche/avalanchego
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

⠀Start the node

sudo systemctl enable avalanched
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart avalanched

⠀Add a command to view a node log in the system as a variable

. <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SecorD0/utils/main/insert_variable.sh) -n "avalanche_log" -v "sudo journalctl -f -n 100 -u avalanched" -a

⠀View the node log

avalanche_log

Useful commands

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⠀To view the last 100 node log entries

avalanch_log
docker logs avalanche_node -fn 100
sudo journalctl -f -n 100 -u avalanchd

⠀To restart the node

sudo systemctl restart avalanchd

Useful URLs

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Official project site | Official Telegram group | Discord | Twitter

Thanks

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Let’s Node Team — writing an article and creating an auto installation script

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