Installing Provenanced

Install the `provenanced` executable for both client and server operations.

Provenance Blockchain is wrapped into a single executable named provenanced. All interaction (whether creating a node, querying, or invoking actions) with Provenance Blockchain can be accomplished using the provenanced command. This document explains the basic installation of the command and verification that it has been installed correctly.

Prerequisites

• Linux or Mac OS
• Go 1.15+ (https://golang.org/doc/install)
• LevelDB 1.23 (https://github.com/google/leveldb)

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On MacOS, LevelDB can be installed with brew install leveldb.

provenanced Install

All interaction (whether creating a node, querying, or invoking actions) with Provenance Blockchain can be accomplished using the provenanced command.

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See the Provenance Blockchain testnet repository for the latest "Software Version" information of pio-testnet-1

Installing

Installing provenanced is done directly from the source code by cloning the version indicated for pio-testnet-1 from the Provenance Blockchain Github repo, then make install:

git clone -b <version> https://github.com/provenance-io/provenance
cd provenance && make install

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<version> is prefixed with 'v' when cloning version branches (eg. v0.2.0)

Verify

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New go executables are installed at "$GOPATH/bin" where the environment variable GOPATH defaults to "~/go" when not set. Remember to add either "$GOPATH/bin" or "~/go/bin" to your PATH when GOPATH is either set or not.

Check the version number to verify that the command has been successfully installed.

provenanced version --long

name: Provenance Blockchain
server_name: provenanced
version: 0.2.0
commit: 75fef3a701af3787a56d4c8c6b40f67b95b79eb6