Hyperledger-Fabric-Install

Steps I took to install Hyperledger Fabric on Ubuntu, which may one day become automated... maybe.

NOTE: I am using a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

The following works on a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Update the package index

sudo apt-get update

Install curl and packages to setup Docker repository for the usual Docker install method

See https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/#install-docker-ce for more details on this

sudo apt-get install curl apt-transport-https ca-certificates software-properties-common

Add Docker gpg key

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

Verify the gpg key

sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88

Add Docker repository

sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"

Update the package index again

sudo apt-get update

Install the latest stable version of Docker (note: Hyperledger requires 17.06.2-ce or newer)

sudo apt-get install docker-ce

Check Docker version to ensure it's installed

docker --version

Download Docker Compose

sudo curl -L https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.21.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Apply executable permission to the Docker Compose binary

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Check Docker Compose version to ensure it's installed

docker-compose --version

Download and setup Go programming language (check for latest stable release on https://golang.org/dl/ and edit the *.tar.gz bit accordingly on the commands below

curl -O https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go1.10.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sha256sum go1.10.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvf go1.10.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv go /usr/local

Open profile to setup Go related paths for the user profile

sudo vim ~/.profile

Add following lines to ~/.profile file

export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$GOPATH/bin

Reload the profile file

source ~/.profile

Install Node.js (here we install required Ubuntu packages and build Node.js from source since Hyperledger 1.2 only supports Node.js versions 8.9+ but < 9)

Update the package index again and install necessary Ubuntu packages for Node.js

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential openssl libssl-dev pkg-config

Go to the src directory, create a node directory, and go into it

cd /usr/local/src
sudo mkdir node
cd node

Download Node.js (here we download version 8.9.3 due to limitations of Hyperledger 1.2)

sudo wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.9.3/node-v8.9.3.tar.gz

Extract the tar file and go into the newly created node-v*.*.* directory, configure the directory, run make, and make install (note: this could take a little while since we're building from source)

sudo tar zxvf node-v8.9.3.tar.gz
cd node-v8.9.3
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

Check Node.js versions to ensure it's installed

node --version

Upgrade NPM version as per instructions on http://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.2/prereqs.html and check it's correct

sudo npm install npm@5.6.0 -g
npm --version

Python 2.7.12 should already be installed on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, but just in case, install Python (ensure we're only using version 2.7x and not Python 3)

sudo apt-get install python
python --version

(Optional) Install Fabric Samples

One can create a hyperledger directory in /usr/local/ and go into it to run the following commands which create a fabric-samples directory and installs them there

cd /usr/local
sudo mkdir hyperledger
cd hyperledger
curl -sSL http://bit.ly/2ysbOFE | sudo bash -s 1.2.0

You may want to add that directory location to your PATH environment variable so that these can be picked up without fully qualifying the path to each binary. e.g.: export PATH=path/to/download/location/bin:$PATH so in this case export PATH=/usr/local/hyperledger/fabric-samples/bin:$PATH

(Optional) Create a genesis block for your network

Note: The following is relevant if you've installed Fabric Samples as detailed above

cd /path/to/fabric-samples/first-network so in our case:

cd /usr/local/hyperledger/fabric-samples/first-network
sudo ./byfn.sh generate

See http://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/release-1.2/build_network.html for more