Install Prerequisites

Supporting software for supporting software

Install Prerequisites

The following tools may not yet be available on your system, but are necessary for installing our supporting software.

make

make is a utility to assist in building software.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install make

Results of apt-get install make command

Check to see if make was correctly installed.

make --version

Results of make --version command

Go

Go is a programming language and the go compiler is needed to build software written in Go.

The instructions below are for version 1.20. Check for newer versions of go, and adapt the instructions below.

cd
wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.20.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.20.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo ln -s /usr/local/go/bin/go /usr/bin/go

Results of the wget, tar, and ln commands

Check to see if go was installed correctly.

go version

Results of go version command

Optionally, clean up installation files.

rm go1.20.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Stake Local Dashboard Repository

Clone the Stake Local Dashboard repository.

mkdir ~/git
cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/stakelocal/stakelocal-dashboard.git