How to setup Lisk Node and Delegate

Setup Lisk Node

In this post I will review how to setup a Lisk node and a Delegate. I will be using Digital Ocean VPS running Ubuntu 16.04.1.

Lisk is currently supported on the following operating systems:

• Linux (x86_64)
• Linux (i686)
• Linux (armv6l)
• Linux (armv7l)
• Darwin (x86_64)
• FreeBSD (amd64)

If your architecture is not supported yet, you can try building your own packages using the lisk-build automated package building tool.

To check your operating system run the following command:

uname -sm

Install curl, wget, tar, sudo, unzip, zip

Run the following code block:

if [[ -f "/etc/redhat-release" ]]; then
  yum update
  yum install curl wget tar sudo unzip zip
elif [[ -f "/etc/debian_version" ]]; then
  apt-get update
  apt-get install curl wget tar sudo unzip zip
fi

Create a lisk user and set a password

useradd -d /home/lisk -m lisk
usermod -a -G sudo lisk
passwd lisk

Setup the sudoers file

visudo

Paste the following at the bottom of the file:

%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Hit: Ctrl+ X Then: Y to exit and save

Update the systems Locale

if [[ -f "/etc/redhat-release" ]]; then
  localedef -v -c -i en_US -f UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
  localectl set-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
elif [[ -f "/etc/debian_version" ]]; then
  locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
  update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8
fi

reboot

After the restart su to lisk user created earlier:

su - lisk

Download and Install Lisk

wget https://downloads.lisk.io/scripts/installLisk.sh
bash installLisk.sh install -r main
cd lisk-main
source env.sh
echo "source $(pwd)/env.sh" >> ~/.bash_profile

Create new account

To access the Lisk web client open a browser and go to:

http://[ipaddress or domain]:8000/

Click on "NEW ACCOUNT" button and follow the steps.

Save the passphrase at multiple secure locations!

After confirming the passphrase by entering it again you will be logged in into your account.

Register as a Delegate

Click on "DELEGATE REGISTRATION" at the top right corner. Choose a delegate name. There is a fee of 25 LSK. Only the top 101 delegates will get rewards for forging. All fees are shared equally between the top 101 delegates. In the future delegates that are outside of the top 101 can secure side chains for different applications on the platform.

Enable Forging

Stop the running Lisk node and edit the config file:

bash lisk.sh stop
nano config.json

Find the following section and enter your passphrase:

"forging": {
  "secret" : ["YourDelegatePassphrase"]
}

Start Lisk:

bash lisk.sh start

Some helpful commands:

bash lisk.sh stop
bash lisk.sh start
bash lisk.sh restart
bash lisk.sh reload
bash lisk.sh status
bash lisk.sh logs
bash lisk.sh rebuild