Installing a Cardano node is a frustrating endeavor . In your experience, what is the most straightforward way to go about doing it?
Well, i followed the coincashew guide and it was pretty straighforward i my opinion
I followed this guide and it was straight forward: https://cardano-node-installation.stakepool247.eu/
If you are using a deb based system then I would recommend using your package manager just like you do for every other piece of software on your system.
- Build everything into deb packages and install in standard locations.
- Compile once and install on multiple machines.
- No need for customised $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
- Upgrades become as simple as:
apt upgrade
I have written some guides on how to do this for deb based systems:
Using your package manager would probably save a lot of headaches for people coming to Cardano Forum with questions about what went wrong??? When often the reason is that they have multiple versions of binaries installed all over their systems in different locations and don’t know which one comes first in their custom $PATH. Or they forgot to install some library in a custom user directory. Or they forgot to manually remove the previous version of the library from a custom location. Or …
Seriously, package managers solved all these problems over 20 years ago!