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Then open a different terminal and run: Then open a different terminal and run:
```text ```text
$ bigchaindb -y configure $ bigchaindb -y configure
$ bigchaindb init
``` ```
That creates a configuration file in `$HOME/.bigchaindb` (documented in [the section on configuration](configuration.html)), initializes the database, creates the tables, creates the indexes, and generates the genesis block. That creates a configuration file in `$HOME/.bigchaindb` (documented in [the section on configuration](configuration.html)). More documentation about the `bigchaindb` command is in the section on [the BigchainDB Command Line Interface (CLI)](bigchaindb-cli.html).
You can start BigchainDB Server using: You can start BigchainDB Server using:
```text ```text
$ bigchaindb start $ bigchaindb start
``` ```
If it's the first time you've run `bigchaindb start`, then it creates the database (a RethinkDB database), the tables, the indexes, and the genesis block. It then starts BigchainDB. If you're run `bigchaindb start` or `bigchaindb init` before (and you haven't dropped the database), then `bigchaindb start` just starts BigchainDB.
## Run BigchainDB with Docker ## Run BigchainDB with Docker