airdrp/install-avail-full-node

Install Avail Project Node

Install-Avail-Full-Node

This is a guide for installing Avail Node on Ubuntu 22.04. Video: https://youtu.be/HYBzK-jJIeQ

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1.** Install Rust**

sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install --assume-yes git clang curl libssl-dev protobuf-compiler
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source ~/.cargo/env
rustup default stable
rustup update
rustup update nightly
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown --toolchain nightly

2.After ensuring you have Rust installed, you can run the Avail Node using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/availproject/avail.git
cd avail
mkdir -p output
mkdir -p data
cargo run --locked --release -- --chain kate -d ./output

**This command complies and runs the Avail Node connected to the Kate Network. **

2023-10-11 16:11:31 Avail Node    
2023-10-11 16:11:31 ✌️  version 1.7.0-ad024ff050e    
2023-10-11 16:11:31 ❤️  by Anonymous, 2017-2023    
2023-10-11 16:11:31 📋 Chain specification: Avail Kate Testnet    
2023-10-11 16:11:31 🏷  Node name: decorous-trade-0251    
2023-10-11 16:11:31 👤 Role: FULL    
2023-10-11 16:11:31 💾 Database: RocksDb at /tmp/substrateJwM8xd/chains/Avail Testnet_116d7474-0481-11ee-bc2a-7bfc086be54e/db/full    
2023-10-11 16:11:32 🔨 Initializing Genesis block/state (state: 0x6bc8…8ac6, header-hash: 0xd120…50c6)    
2023-10-11 16:11:32 👴 Loading GRANDPA authority set from genesis on what appears to be first startup.    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 👶 Creating empty BABE epoch changes on what appears to be first startup.    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 🏷  Local node identity is: 12D3KooWMmY2QLodvBGSiP1Cg9ysWrPSMN19qK3w35mRnUhq6pMX    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 Prometheus metrics extended with avail metrics    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 💻 Operating system: linux    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 💻 CPU architecture: x86_64    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 💻 Target environment: gnu    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 💻 CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700K    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 💻 CPU cores: 16    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 💻 Memory: 31863MB    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 💻 Kernel: 6.5.5-100.fc37.x86_64    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 💻 Linux distribution: Fedora Linux 37 (Workstation Edition)    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 💻 Virtual machine: no    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 📦 Highest known block at #0    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 〽️ Prometheus exporter started at 127.0.0.1:9615    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 Running JSON-RPC 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"]    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 🏁 CPU score: 1.65 GiBs    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 🏁 Memory score: 19.49 GiBs    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 🏁 Disk score (seq. writes): 6.74 GiBs    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 🏁 Disk score (rand. writes): 2.65 GiBs    
2023-10-11 16:11:33 🔍 Discovered new external address for our node: /ip4/176.61.156.176/tcp/30333/ws/p2p/12D3KooWMmY2QLodvBGSiP1Cg9ysWrPSMN19qK3w35mRnUhq6pMX    
2023-10-11 16:11:34 [811] 💸 generated 9 npos targets    
2023-10-11 16:11:34 [811] 💸 generated 9 npos voters, 9 from validators and 0 nominators    
2023-10-11 16:11:34 [#811] 🗳  creating a snapshot with metadata SolutionOrSnapshotSize { voters: 9, targets: 9 }    
2023-10-11 16:11:34 [#811] 🗳  Starting phase Signed, round 1.

3. Create Systemd

touch /etc/systemd/system/availd.service
nano /etc/systemd/system/availd.service

Change your Validator name and copy/paste it

[Unit] 
Description=Avail Validator
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0
[Service] 
User=root 
ExecStart= /root/avail/target/release/data-avail --base-path `pwd`/data --chain kate --name "Dinhcongtac221"
Restart=always 
RestartSec=120
[Install] 
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save it: CTRL+X

To enable this to autostart on bootup run:

systemctl enable availd.service

Start it manually with:

systemctl start availd.service

You can check that it's working with:

systemctl status availd.service

You can tail the logs with journalctllike so:

journalctl -f -u availd

Check your node on https://telemetry.avail.tools/