Install PundiX (Pundi X Chain)

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:

Ubuntu

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.

Mac

Ensure you have Homebrew installed.

Once you have Homebrew installed, you may run the following commands to install make and gcc:

brew install make
brew install gcc

We'll be needing these commands later so let's install the necessary packages:

brew install git
brew install wget

Windows

Ensure you have make and gcc installed and that the paths are set correctly for git bash.

One option for installing gcc can be found here.

You may select tdm64-gcc-10.3.0-2

Restart gitbash after installing

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:

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.

Install Go

All other environments

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.

If you are remoting into a terminal

Especially if you are remoting into a Ubuntu terminal, run this command to download the go installer:

wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.18.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz 

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:

mkdir -p $HOME/go/bin
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" >> ~/.profile
echo "export PATH=$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin" >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile

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.

All Other Environments

git clone --branch release/v0.2.x https://github.com/pundix/pundix.git
cd pundix
make go.sum
make install

Windows

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!

git clone --branch release/v0.2.x https://github.com/pundix/pundix.git
cd pundix
make go.sum
make build-win

use cmd prompt to open the pundixd.exe file

in the path ./build/bin/pundixd.exe

Verify version:

# Long version
pundixd version --long

# Short version
pundixd version

pundixd version --long should output something similar to:

name: pundix
server_name: pundixd
version: main-82a9ac1f21783bc4b2838026b1742a2bbdf0bcb0
commit: 82a9ac1f21783bc4b2838026b1742a2bbdf0bcb0
build_tags: netgo,ledger
go: go version go1.18.1 darwin/amd64
build_deps:
...
cosmos_sdk_version: v0.45.5

Build Tags

Build tags indicate special features that have been enabled in the binary.

Build Tag	Description
netgo	Name resolution will use pure Go code
ledger	Ledger devices are supported (hardware wallets)