Guide: Quickstart to running a node (Ubuntu 16.04)

Install boost library

apt-get update
apt-get install libboost-all-dev

(Optional) Build and Install boost v1.66 instead (Ubuntu repo has v1.58)

Install required dependencies:

sudo apt install g++ git cmake -y

wget https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.66.0/source/boost_1_66_0.tar.bz2
tar --bzip2 -xf boost_1_66_0.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_66_0
./bootstrap.sh
sudo ./b2 install

Download and extract nano node

cd ~
wget https://github.com/nanocurrency/nano-node/releases/download/V11.2/nano-11.2.0-Linux.tar.bz2
tar xvf nano-11.2.0-Linux.tar.bz2

Initiate nano_node to generate ~/Nano

 ./nano-node-11.2.0-Linux/bin/nano_node --daemon

Press ctrl+c to kill process

Update config.json

nano ~/Nano/config.json

Change: "rpc_enable": "true" Save and quit

Find the path of the nano_node binary, as well as the user it will be run by

cd ~/nano-node-11.2.0-Linux/bin/
pwd -P

This should output something similar to: /home/stanley/nano-node-11.2.0-Linux/bin Write down this path for our service file in a future step

ls -l

This should output something similar to: -rwxr-xr-x 1 stanley stanley 8.9M Feb 16 02:25 nano_node Write down the user and group (in this example, both the user and group is stanley) to the left of nano_node, this should be the same as your username

Create service file

sudo touch /etc/systemd/system/nano_node.service   
sudo chmod 664 /etc/systemd/system/nano_node.service   
sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/nano_node.service  

Service file

[Unit]
Description=RaiBlocks node service
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/stanley/nano-node-11.2.0-Linux/bin/nano_node --daemon #Update this with the link copied from the last step
Restart=on-failure
User=stanley #This user from the last step
Group=stanley #The group from the last step

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Be sure to remove the comments (the parts starting at #) as they may cause problems.

Start the service

sudo service nano_node start

Enable the node to run on boot

sudo systemctl enable nano_node

Create a symlink to nano_node to easily access later

ln -s ~/nano-node-11.2.0-Linux/bin/nano_node /usr/local/sbin/nano_node

Voila!

You should now have a brand new node up and running, and the blocks syncing.

Check Status

nano_node --debug_block_count

This will show you how far along the node is to syncing the blocks. You can compare this to the current block count at https://www.nanode.co/blocks to see how far along the syncing process your are