Node Setup

Install and Update Required Packages

sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get upgrade -y && \
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential curl wget jq

Install the Initia Daemon

Then, we need to clone the Initia repository and checkout the latest or desired version.

git clone https://github.com/initia-labs/initia
cd initia
git checkout [version]

Once we have the correct version, we can build the binary. This will install the initiad executable to your GOPATH environment variable.

make install

To verify that the installation was successful, run the following command:

initiad version --long

If installed correctly, this should give you an output similar to the following:

name: initia
server_name: initiad
version: v0.1.0-beta.14-3-gfb27858
commit: fb278587666dde8ae2d46c51a9f8a760c8d0c3c2
build_tags: netgo,ledger
go: go version go1.20.1 darwin/amd64
build_deps:
- cosmossdk.io/api@v0.2.6
- cosmossdk.io/core@v0.5.1

If you get a initiad: command not found message from running initiad, you may need to add the GOPATH/bin directory to your PATH environment variable.

export PATH=$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin

Increases File Descriptors Limit

Linux systems by default set the maximum number of file descriptors that can be opened by a process to 1024. It is recomemneded that you increase this amount.

To do so, modify /etc/security/limits.conf to increase the amount. The nofile is the number of files a process may open at a time.

If you are using a non-root user, replace * with the username of the user.

limits.conf

* soft nofile 65535
* hard nofile 65535

Register Initia as a Service

While you can run your initia node manually, it is recomemnded that you register it as a Linux service. This will allow you to more easily manage your node and also to run it as a background process.

To do so, create a file at /etc/systemd/system/initiad.service with the contents below. replace

• User: with the accout name that you will be running initiad from
• ExecStart: with the full path to the initiad binary + start command

initiad.service

[Unit]
Description=initiad

[Service]
Type=simple
User=ubuntu
ExecStart=/usr/bin/initiad start
Restart=on-abort
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=initiad
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Once the file is created, run the following command to enable the service and start it:

sudo systemctl enable initiad

Whenever you modify the initiad.service file after you enabled it, you need to run the following commands first before the changes are applied

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart initiad