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Installing BigchainDB
BigchainDB works on top of rethinkDB server. In order to use BigchainDB we first need to install rethinkDB server.
Installing and running rethinkDB server on Ubuntu >= 12.04
Rethinkdb provides binaries for all major distros. For ubuntu we only need to
add the RethinkDB repository to our list
of repositories and install via apt-get
source /etc/lsb-release && echo "deb http://download.rethinkdb.com/apt
$DISTRIB_CODENAME main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rethinkdb.list
wget -qO- https://download.rethinkdb.com/apt/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rethinkdb
For more information, rethinkDB provides detailed instructions on how to install in a variety of systems.
RethinkDB does not require any special configuration. To start rethinkdb server just run this command on the terminal.
$ rethinkdb
Installing and running BigchainDB
BigchainDB is distributed as a python package. Installing is simple using pip
$ pip install bigchaindb
After installing BigchainDB we can run it with:
$ bigchaindb start
During the first run BigchainDB takes care of configuring a single node environment.
Installing from source
BigchainDB is in its early stages and being actively developed on its GitHub repository. Contributions are highly appreciated.
Clone the public repository
$ git clone git@github.com:BigchainDB/bigchaindb.git
Install from the source
$ python setup.py install
Installing with Docker
Coming soon...