Installation

NOTE: this wiki is mostly deprecated and left for archival purposes. Please see the documentation website which is built from the docs directory. Additional information about the specification can also be found in that directory.

Install Go

Make sure you have installed Go and set the GOPATH.

Install Tendermint

You should be able to install the latest with a simple go get -u github.com/tendermint/tendermint/cmd/tendermint. The -u makes sure all dependencies are updated as well.

See tendermint version and tendermint --help for more.

Vendored dependencies

If updated dependencies break builds, install the vendored commits using glide.

First, install glide:

go get github.com/Masterminds/glide

Now, fetch the dependencies and install them with glide and go:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/tendermint/tendermint
glide install
go install ./cmd/tendermint

The latest Tendermint Core version is now installed. Check by running tendermint version.

Troubleshooting

If go get failing bothers you, fetch the code using git:

mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/tendermint
git clone https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint $GOPATH/src/github.com/tendermint/tendermint

Run

To start a one-node blockchain with a simple in-process application:

tendermint init
tendermint node --proxy_app=dummy

See the application developers guide for more details on building and running applications.