Biglionaire

Installation Guide

• Update and install packages

sudo apt update
sudo apt install make clang pkg-config libssl-dev build-essential

• Create directory

mkdir -p ${HOME}/avail-node
mkdir -p ${HOME}/avail-node/data
mkdir -p ${HOME}/avail-node/systemd

• Extract binary

cd avail-node
wget https://github.com/availproject/avail/releases/download/v1.8.0.0/amd64-ubuntu-2204-data-avail.tar.gz

• Extract File

tar -xvzf amd64-ubuntu-2204-data-avail.tar.gz
cp amd64-ubuntu-2204-data-avail data-avail

• Create a service file

sudo tee ${HOME}/avail-node/systemd/availd.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=Avail Validator
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0
[Service]
User=$(whoami)
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=120
ExecStart=${HOME}/avail-node/data-avail --base-path ${HOME}/avail-node/data --chain goldberg --port 30333 --validator --name "YOUR_NAME"
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

• Enable and start the service

sudo ln -sf ${HOME}/avail-node/systemd/availd.service /etc/systemd/system/
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable availd

• Start node

sudo systemctl start availd

• Check node logs

sudo journalctl -fu availd

• The node will output the following when started:

2023-06-03 20:36:29 Avail Node
2023-06-03 20:36:29 ✌️  version 1.6.0-99b85257d6b
2023-06-03 20:36:29 ❤️  by Anonymous, 2017-2023
2023-06-03 20:36:29 📋 Chain specification: Avail Kate Testnet
2023-06-03 20:36:29 🏷  Node name: bewildered-distance-1229
2023-06-03 20:36:29 👤 Role:Authority
2023-06-03 20:36:29 💾 Database: RocksDb at /Users/thunder/code/avail/data/chains/Avail Testnet_6831251e-0222-11ee-a2c3-c90377335962/db/full
2023-06-03 20:36:29 ⛓  Native runtime: data-avail-9 (data-avail-0.tx1.au11)
2023-06-03 20:36:35 👶 Creating empty BABE epoch changes on what appears to be first startup.
2023-06-03 20:36:35 🏷  Local node identity is: 12D3KooWPt7odw3aeq7azZDugXjNuUvQNPU58n1VRBzY1YBqsjkr
2023-06-03 20:36:35 Prometheus metrics extended with avail metrics
2023-06-03 20:36:35 💻 Operating system: macos
2023-06-03 20:36:35 💻 CPU architecture: aarch64
2023-06-03 20:36:35 📦 Highest known block at #0
2023-06-03 20:36:35 〽️ Prometheus exporter started at 127.0.0.1:9615
2023-06-03 20:36:35 Running JSON-RPC HTTP server: addr=127.0.0.1:9933, allowed origins=["http://localhost:*", "http://127.0.0.1:*", "https://localhost:*", "https://127.0.0.1:*", "https://polkadot.js.org"]
2023-06-03 20:36:35 Running JSON-RPC WS server: addr=127.0.0.1:9944, allowed origins=["http://localhost:*", "http://127.0.0.1:*", "https://localhost:*", "https://127.0.0.1:*", "https://polkadot.js.org"]
2023-06-03 20:36:35 🏁 CPU score: 724.71 MiBs
2023-06-03 20:36:35 🏁 Memory score: 41.49 GiBs
2023-06-03 20:36:35 🏁 Disk score (seq. writes): 1.91 GiBs
2023-06-03 20:36:35 🏁 Disk score (rand. writes): 454.66 MiBs

• • • HAPPY RUNNING • • •