Cardano Node Installation process

Let's start by downloading the Cardano Node source code from git (github)

cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node.git

[email protected]:~$ git clone https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node.git Cloning into 'cardano-node'... remote: Enumerating objects: 18, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (18/18), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (16/16), done. remote: Total 17996 (delta 3), reused 4 (delta 1), pack-reused 17978 Receiving objects: 100% (17996/17996), 5.66 MiB | 1.62 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (11955/11955), done.

You should have now a new folder - cardano-node with the source code of the cardano node, let's go to that directory and choose which version we would like to install (compile)

cd cardano-node
git checkout tags/1.27.0

Let's force the installation process to use the GHC version that we just installed.

cabal configure --with-compiler=ghc-8.10.4

Starting from tag 1.14.x we need to add libsodium libraries to Cardano node, so let's do that

echo "package cardano-crypto-praos" >>  cabal.project.local
echo "  flags: -external-libsodium-vrf" >>  cabal.project.local

Now we are ready to start the installation (compilation) process (for those who are just updating and skipping to this page... I added cabal clean & cabal update command)! This will take a while... if you are installing this on the VPS server, then you can go and grab coffee/beer/wine/water... as it will take a while.

cabal clean
cabal update
cabal build all

as the last step in our installation process is to copy newly compiled bin (executive) files to an early created folder: .local/bin

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin/
cp -p dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.10.4/cardano-cli-1.27.0/x/cardano-cli/build/cardano-cli/cardano-cli ~/.local/bin/
cp -p dist-newstyle/build/x86_64-linux/ghc-8.10.4/cardano-node-1.27.0/x/cardano-node/build/cardano-node/cardano-node ~/.local/bin/

Let's check if we have installed the binary files in the correct location and the latest version

which cardano-node && which cardano-cli
cardano-node --version
cardano-cli --version
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[email protected]:~$ cardano-node --version cardano-node 1.27.0 - linux-x86_64 - ghc-8.10 git rev 8fe46140a52810b6ca456be01d652ca08fe730bf

[email protected]:~$ cardano-cli --version cardano-cli 1.27.0 - linux-x86_64 - ghc-8.10 git rev 8fe46140a52810b6ca456be01d652ca08fe730bf

Great! We have installed the cardano node on our server!

Congratulations on running a Cardano Node (MainNet)!