Nov 28, 2018
Super Beginner Guide to install an Elastos Carrier Node on PC.
First rule : Be patient
Second rule : Be persistent
Third Rule : Take a lot of breaks !
It’s ok to search aimlessly and don’t find the solution, I am not a developer but I did it! You can do it too.
- This manual for a set up on Linux ! Other versions of the SBG will come for Apple and Windows.
- Take a morning or an evening for doing it with some comfort.
- Have fun! Put music on!
Objective 1 (1 or 2hours) : You need to have Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (It’s a Linux OS)
I consider you are already on a classic windows 7, but the process is almost the same for other windows.
If you have already windows (like 99 % of people), you need to install Ubuntu as a dual boot = ( you can choose at the start of the computer which OS you want)
You need a USB DRIVE of 2GB !!
You need ~10–20 % of free hard drive for installing Ubuntu !!
Follow the steps here of this good manual and take your time !
KEEP ON EYE ON STEP 6a, DO NOT « ERASE DISK and INSTALL Ubuntu » !!!
Forget about 6b.
Normally, you have installed Ubuntu, you logged on your account and ready to rock.
Objective 2 (“easy level”) : Open a console and use it
You can right click the background and « open a terminal » or click to the little black screen on the left bar.
For information, a terminal is the true representation of your session, if you have a picture/video/document on your desktop, you can found the thing through the terminal, ok ? But it’s written, not shown as icons !
At a start, you can see a green text with « blablabla@yoursession-xxxxxx etc… », it’s your active session. I call it the « start point ».
You need to learn the very basic of command
ls => show you the documents as a list ( in the directory you are )
exemple : ls MyDocuments + « Enter »
“cd name” => permit you to move through a named directory
exemple : cd MyDocuments + « Enter »
There is special case of cd to know too :
If you type only « cd », you return to your start point immediately.
If you type « cd .. », you go up to a mother directory, ok ? (It’ cd+space+.+.)
You can create a new directory too !
“mkdir name”=> you make a new directory with a name you give
And a nice trick, type the first letters of a file like “My” and push “Tab”, (the key with the double arrows),the terminal will find “MyDocuments”, it’s a nice search tool to use ! And you don’t need to type all the thing again and again!
For example, you can type
cd My+tab (entering “MyDocuments),
or
ls My+tab(watching the files into the “MyDocuments” directory)
Try to catch this 4 basic commands before taking the next step, it is essential to grasp that and use it with ease !
Objective 3 (“hard level”) : Create your own Carrier node
Follow the steps on the link below :
https://github.com/elastos/Elastos.NET.Carrier.Native.SDK/
GitHub is scary for non developers people,it’s ok ! Just scroll down and go to “Ubuntu 2. Install Pre-Requirements”
You just need to copy/paste the lines on citation, it’s code, you don’t take the $ sign.
For copy/paste on the terminal it’s CTRL+C (copy) but it’s CTRL+SHIFT+V (paste on terminal)
Each time, you put only one line and wait.
But there is how I did it ( not the best way but it works so far )
Forget about « cmake » go directly to « make « ( we are not interested to custom making!)
For the « Run Elashell or Elatests » at the end, they asked to « first extract…
- go OUT of the terminal, find your compressed directory ,left bar, documents icon and go to
Personnal Directory/Elastos.NET.Carrier.Native.SDK/build/linux
3.Decompress the directory
« elastos-carrier-5.1.71e4c1-linux-x86_64-Release.tar.gz» manually. ( right click on the directory, decompress)
After this, go to the terminal again, with the command « cd », go into the new directory you decompressed,and go into « bin » directory
You need to have this :
cd YOUR-DISTRIBUTION-PACKAGE-PATH/bin (on the github)
=
cd Personnal Directory/Elastos.NET.Carrier.Native.SDK/build/linux/bin
( on your terminal)
Ans that’s it ! You did it !
The fun part now ;), You can type :
./elashell.sh
- connecting a carrier node
There is a lot of commands to play with ! Go to the link and read for info
https://github.com/elastos/Elastos.NET.Carrier.Native.SDK/blob/master/COMMANDS.md
After connecting your node, you can check on the Elastos Peer Network
Your « dot » on the world map is where your ISP ( Internet Service Provider) is located.
Welcome to the network of the Modern Internet as one of the first nodes !
./elatests.sh
running a test program
Works for 5–10 min and the test « kill » itself ( the test is finished )
We can see live the nodes talking to themselves, and when a node « die », your personnal node search other ways.
There is a 1Mb of information send at the end of the test !! It’s data moving through the network !!
