# Install Instructions

# Overview

This is a detailed start guide. The address issues not in Quickstart quide

# Install

# Quick Install

# Install Tendermint

Install Tendermint using the go path and binary.

Alternatively

Downlaod the binary and to move binary to /usr/bin, works with Tendermint v0.28, should be able to work with latest.

sudo apt install unzip && sudo unzip tendermint*.zip && sudo rm tendermint*.zip &&sudo  mv tendermint /usr/local/bin

To download pre-built binaries, see the releases page

wget https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/releases/download/v0.28.3/tendermint_0.28.3_linux_amd64.zip

unzip tendermint_0.28.3_linux_amd64.zip && rm tendermint_0.28.3_linux_amd64.zip 

mv tendermint /usr/local/bin

# Install Vimana

Recommended to optionally create a virtualenv for Python 3.6+

virtualenv -p python3 venv
source venv/bin/activate

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/MDSLab/vimana

go inside the folder

cd vimana

Install all the requirements

pip3 -r req.txt

# Local Node single node

python3 vimana/start.py --tm

--tm flag is equivalent to the setup of running tendermint on another node.

# OR

Start tendermint with a simple in-process application

tendermint init --home ".node"

tendermint node --home ".node"

tendermint node --proxy_app=tcp://localhost:26658 --consensus.create_empty_blocks=false

The proxy_app flag is used to set the localhost to connect to abci. In general abci starts in 26658

Tendermint sends a lot of blank nodes to remove this issue you can use create_empty_blocks flag

Start the Vimana Server

python3 vimana/start.py

You bashould be able to send requests to rendermint now. Send curl requests to 25556

You can use the client side Application to do this.