This guide will explain how to install the pundixd CLI onto your system. With this installed on a server, you can participate on the mainnet as either a Full Node or a Validator.
Hardware Requirements
We recommend the following for running PundiX:
4 or more CPU cores
At least 500G of disk storage
At least 8G of memory
At least 10mbps network bandwidth
To see a quick cloud setup on how to setup and deploy it on the cloud.
Install build requirements
Install make and gcc.
On Ubuntu this can be done with the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y make gcc
sudo apt-get install -y make gcc may have encountered a problem with locked files, just try sudo apt-get install -y make gcc again.
One option for installing make is using chocolate , more information can be found here.
Once you have chocolate installed, run this command:
make sure to run gitbash as administrator mode if the following commands DO NOT work
choco install make
Ensure you have all the necessary dependencies and compilers.
gcc --version
It will return:
gcc.exe (tdm64-1) 10.3.0
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
For make:
make --version
It will return:
Install Go
Install go by following the official docs. Please select your respective environment❗
For Ubuntu environment, there may be permissions denied issues with unzipping the go zip file, try using sudo su to resolve it.
Especially if you are remoting into a Ubuntu terminal, run this command to download the go installer:
After you have downloaded the package and you may proceed to step 2 of the official docs. Choose your system OS and follow the instructions stated.
Go 1.18+ or later is required for the PundiX. If you are remoting into a terminal, you may input the following command:
Setting environment variables:
Install the binaries
Next, let's install the latest version of PundiX. Make sure you have git installed if not you will be prompted to install git. Follow the instruction in the terminal.
You should run your commands in gitbash. But open pundixd.exe file using cmd prompt
Make sure the name of your folder does not have whitespaces!
use cmd prompt to open the pundixd.exe file
in the path ./build/bin/pundixd.exe
Verify version:
pundixd version --long should output something similar to:
Build Tags
Build tags indicate special features that have been enabled in the binary.
GNU Make 4.3
Built for Windows32
Copyright (C) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
