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Quickstart
This page has instructions to set up a single stand-alone BigchainDB node for learning or experimenting. If you want to set up a BigchainDB node for production, development, benchmarking, or something else, see the BigchainDB Nodes section.
We will assume you're using Ubuntu 14.04 or similar. If you're not using Linux, then you might try running BigchainDB with Docker.
B. Open a Terminal and run RethinkDB Server with the command:
rethinkdb
C. Ubuntu 14.04 already has Python 3.4, so you don't need to install it, but you do need to install a couple other things:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install g++ python3-dev
D. Get the latest version of pip, wheel and setuptools:
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
sudo easy_install3 pip
pip3 install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools
E. Install the bigchaindb
Python package from PyPI:
sudo pip install bigchaindb
F. Configure and run BigchainDB:
bigchaindb -y configure
bigchaindb start
That's it!
For now, you can get a good sense of how to work with BigchainDB by going through the examples in the section on the Python Server API.