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System Requirements

Erlang (version >= 18)

Ubuntu (version >=16) (Windows coming soon) Or Mac OS

Building from Source

For Ubuntu

Make sure that that you are running Ubuntu 16 or later:

(earlier versions of ubuntu requires manually installing the latest version of erlang, because the package manager installs an old version)

Use this command to check your version number

lsb_release -a

Make sure that your system is up-to-date:

sudo apt-get update

and

sudo apt-get upgrade

For Ubuntu, install following dependencies:

sudo apt-get install erlang libncurses5-dev libssl-dev unixodbc-dev g++ git erlang-base-hipe

Next, download Aeternity Testnet. Optionally you can run next steps with a non-root user, for better security.

git clone https://github.com/aeternity/testnet.git

Now you can go into the directory, and compile the aeternity testnet.

cd testnet/
sh install.sh

Now you can run your node. with sh start.sh

For Mac

First install brew, a package manager for OSX.

https://brew.sh/

Next install erlang and rebar, the package manager for erlang

brew install erlang
brew install rebar

now use rebar to get and compile Aeternity:

rebar get
rebar get-deps
rebar compile

Now you can run your node with sh start.sh

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