General requirements
- ensure all dependencies necessary for running the tutorials are installed :::
In order to run the tutorials, we must first make sure that the packages listed in this section are all installed and working in your system.
As we mentioned earlier, The Cartesi Compute Tutorials will provide every single command that you need to run in your shell to turn an Ubuntu machine into a fully fledged Cartesi development environment. That is, if you are starting with a fresh copy of the latest Ubuntu LTS installed in your machine, you should never need to leave this tutorial for an external website to get something installed. And if some tutorial step doesn't work for you, and you have tried it in a clean Ubuntu LTS installation, then that could be a bug in the tutorials, and you can discuss it in our Discord channel.
Basic tools
Before installing any package specifically needed for our tutorials, we must first make sure that some basic tools are available.
First of all, let's install the curl tool for transferring data using a number of supported protocols:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl
Now, let's also install the wget tool for non-interactive download of files from the Web:
sudo apt-get install wget
Docker
Docker is a widely used platform for users to build, run, and share applications with containers, and is a great way of distributing the Cartesi Compute SDK and all of its dependencies.
To install Docker, you can follow the official Docker Engine installation instructions from the Docker website. For Ubuntu, you can refer directly to the Docker Engine installation instructions for Ubuntu. Below, we reproduce the Docker installation steps that we have verified as working for a fresh Ubuntu installation:
First, we need to set up Docker's repository:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
And then install Docker itself:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
Finally, it is a good idea to allow non-root users to manage Docker, so as to avoid having to type sudo for every Docker command:
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
newgrp docker
After that, you can check if Docker is properly installed by running:
docker --version
Docker Compose
Docker Compose is a tool that allows us to start multiple Docker containers simultaneously and set up communication between them. With Compose, we can emulate the entire Cartesi Compute SDK environment (both of all off-chain and on-chain components, including the local "testnet" blockchain itself), and thus test our Cartesi Compute dApps using only your physical development machine.
Follow the official instructions for installing Compose from the Docker website. To make the official site display the instructions for installing on Ubuntu, click on the Linux tab under the Install Compose section. A subsection named Install Compose on Linux systems should appear, and you can follow those. The Docker Compose Linux installation instructions boil down to running the following commands.
First, download the Docker Compose binary (version 1.26.0 was the latest at the time of this writing):
sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.26.0/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
Then, make the binary executable:
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
And finally, test it:
docker-compose --version
Node.js and NPM
Node.js is a very popular asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, and is often distributed along with the NPM package manager. These are required for running Yarn.
To install Node.js, follow the official instructions. Specifically for Ubuntu, you can perform the steps below:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
And then test them:
node –-version
npm –-version
Yarn
Yarn is a great dependency management tool, and will be used for adding dependencies to our tutorial projects. You can install it by accessing the official installation site. The official instructions for installing on Ubuntu are as follows.
First, configure the repository:
curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
Then, run:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
And finally, test that Yarn is installed and working properly:
yarn --version