Installation

Build and install the Point Chain binaries from source or using Docker.

Pre-requisites

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Point Chain is built using Go version 1.18+

go version

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If the pointd: command not found error message is returned, confirm that your GOPATH is correctly configured by running the following command:

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

Clone and build Point Chain using git:

git clone https://github.com/pointnetwork/point-chain.git
cd point-chain
git checkout mainnet
make install

Check that the pointd binaries have been successfully installed:

pointd version

Also to build node you would have to have make installed:

sudo apt-get install build-essential