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Setting Up

Pre-Requisites

There are a few things needed before installing.

While logged in as the 'root' or 'admin' user, we add a 'jackal' user and give them root privileges.

Create Jackal user

sudo adduser --gecos "" jackal
sudo usermod -aG sudo jackal

Re-log in as the jackal user to complete the below steps.

Installing required tools

This will install the necessary tools to build the jackal chain source, along with lz4 compression tool and jquery tool.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential lz4 jq

Installing Go

Follow more in-depth instructions to install Go v1.19 or higher here.

On Ububtu you can install it with:

GOVER=$(curl https://go.dev/VERSION?m=text)
wget https://golang.org/dl/${GOVER}.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go && sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf ${GOVER}.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Add the following golang path info to the current users ~/.profile.

Also add it to the skeleton profile so all new users have it. /etc/skel/.profile

# add environmental variables for Go
if [ -f "/usr/local/go/bin/go" ] ; then
    export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
    export GOPATH=${HOME}/go
    export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
    export PATH=${PATH}:${GOROOT}/bin:${GOBIN}
    export GO111MODULE=on
fi

Restarting the shell with youre profile settings or just rebasing them like so is required.

source ~/.profile