Setting up Cadano node from source

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My linux is pretty rusty… bash cant find cabal? need help cant get cabal to run?
Should I be doing this as root? Maybe thats bad idea lol

root@santonode:~# ls -la
total 40
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 May 23 00:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 May 22 21:49 …
-rw------- 1 root root 2657 May 23 00:08 .bash_history
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 3130 May 23 00:07 .bashrc
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 22 16:10 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 22 21:49 .local
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 148 Aug 6 2018 .profile
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 20 May 21 21:22 .screenrc
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 May 22 16:18 .ssh
-rw------- 1 root root 675 May 23 00:08 .viminfo
root@santonode:~# source .bashrc
root@santonode:~# cabal update

-bash: cabal: command not found

root@santonode:~/.local/bin# ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 23 00:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 22 21:49 …
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Sep 9 2001 cabal
root@santonode:~/.local/bin#

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Hi!

What is inside .bashrc file? PATH env variable particular

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got the new env variable to persist on login… but still does not find cabal command

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try to use full path like /home/user/.local/bin:$PATH to get the full path use pwd command in home directory
and check what is in PATH env variable by echo $PATH

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still getting -bash cabal: command not found

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Ahh ok - so you moved the cabal folder under ~/.local/bin and not the executable…
follow the installation instructions from here:
https://docs.cardano.org/projects/cardano-node/en/latest/getting-started/install.html

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ok

  1. I got the cabal binary and was able to update and validate the version
  2. downloaded and configured and installed GHC compiler (Haskell has his own compiler? lol)
    progress… :slight_smile:
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What version of cadano-node? 1.27.0 ? git tag also lists 1.3 thru 1.9?

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1.27.0 is the latest

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Got a warning during cabal configure - falling back to older state
hoping this is normal

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you need to install libsodium package - follow the installation guide.

btw, you dont have to build the node from source - the binaries is also available for Linux:

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Now there is a good idea! lol

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should have done it this way hahaha
ok know I need to learn how to operate this beast!
Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

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for me it took a complete day to just compile the node with a 4 CPU machine…