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# Set Up BigchainDB, MongoDB and Tendermint
We now install and configure software that must run
in every BigchainDB node: BigchainDB Server,
MongoDB and Tendermint.
## Install BigchainDB Server
BigchainDB Server requires **Python 3.6+**, so make sure your system has it.
Install the required OS-level packages:
```
# For Ubuntu 18.04:
sudo apt install -y python3-pip libssl-dev
# Ubuntu 16.04, and other Linux distros, may require other packages or more packages
```
Now install the latest version of BigchainDB Server.
You can find the latest version by going
to the [BigchainDB project release history page on PyPI][bdb:pypi].
For example, to install version 2.0.0b7, you would do:
```
# Change 2.0.0b7 to the latest version as explained above:
sudo pip3 install bigchaindb==2.0.0b7
```
Check that you installed the correct version of BigchainDB Server using `bigchaindb --version`.
## Configure BigchainDB Server
To configure BigchainDB Server, run:
```
bigchaindb configure
```
The first question is ``API Server bind? (default `localhost:9984`)``.
* If you're using NGINX (e.g. if you want HTTPS),
then accept the default value (`localhost:9984`).
* If you're not using NGINX, then enter the value `0.0.0.0:9984`
You can accept the default value for all other BigchainDB config settings.
If you're using NGINX, then you should edit your BigchainDB config file
(in `$HOME/.bigchaindb` by default) and set the following values
under `"wsserver"`:
```
"advertised_scheme": "wss",
"advertised_host": "bnode.example.com",
"advertised_port": 443
```
where `bnode.example.com` should be replaced by your node's actual subdomain.
## Install (and Start) MongoDB
Install a recent version of MongoDB.
BigchainDB Server requires version 3.4 or newer.
```
sudo apt install mongodb
```
If you install MongoDB using the above command (which installs the `mongodb` package),
it also configures MongoDB, starts MongoDB (in the background),
and installs a MongoDB startup script
(so that MongoDB will be started automatically when the machine is restarted).
Note: The `mongodb` package is _not_ the official MongoDB package
from MongoDB the company. If you want to install the official MongoDB package,
please see
[the MongoDB documentation](https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/installation/).
Note that installing the official package _doesn't_ also start MongoDB.
## Install Tendermint
The version of BigchainDB Server described in these docs only works well
with Tendermint 0.22.8 (not a higher version number). Install that:
```
sudo apt install -y unzip
wget https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/releases/download/v0.22.8/tendermint_0.22.8_linux_amd64.zip
unzip tendermint_0.22.8_linux_amd64.zip
rm tendermint_0.22.8_linux_amd64.zip
sudo mv tendermint /usr/local/bin
```
## Start Configuring Tendermint
You won't be able to finish configuring Tendermint until you have some information
from the other nodes in the network, but you can start by doing:
```
tendermint init
```