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GRIN for Fedora

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GRIN for Fedora

NOTE: All of this is still in testing.

This github repository contains source packages and source package bits in order to build grin for Fedora Linux (and presumably EL-based distros).

These source packages are used to build packages used to deploy runnable binaries. Those packages used to deploy runnable binaries are built on Fedora's COPR build infrastructure. Getting access, though, is easy. Just install the repo-enabling package and install grin-mw or grin-mw-miner. Here you go...

sudo rpm --import https://keybase.io/toddwarner/key.asc
sudo dnf install -y https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taw00/grin-rpm/master/toddpkgs-grin-mw-repo.fedora.testing.rpm
sudo dnf list --refresh |grep grin
#sudo dnf install -y grin-mw
#sudo dnf install -y grin-miner-mw

A couple notes about the name grin-mw-*

• In the linux universe there already exists a package named "grin". Therefore both the packages and the /usr/bin/grin application had to be renamed/moved.
• The executable, grin, has been moved into the /var/lib/grin/ directory tree and two wrapper scripts have been created to run the application: grin-wallet and grin-node. I could have just settled on one script to simply redirect to /var/lib/grin/grin but ... for aesthetic reasons, I did not.
• If you install the grin-mw-miner package as well, you now have three "executables": grin-wallet, grin-node, grin-miner. It has a nice symmetry.

Summary usage

Upstream documentation on usage: https://github.com/mimblewimble/docs/wiki/Getting-Started-With-Grin%3A-Links-and-Resources

I want to initialize and use a wallet

Initialize (create) a wallet? Easy peasy...

# At the commandline as a normal user...
grin-wallet init

Remember: grin-wallet replaces grin as the command when using our RPMs.

You will be asked for a password. Enter that twice and a seed will be generated. Backup these two pieces of data somewhere.

Done! Wallet created. All data is stored, by default, in ~/.grin/

Use a wallet?

To use a grin wallet, you need to connect to a node. The easy means to do that is to run your own! Your local wallet will, by defaul, look for a local full node to connect to. So skip to that step, and when you get a full node running, come back here.

...you switch terminals and start up a full grin node...

Ready to use the wallet? Got a running node in another terminal? Great.

Try this...

grin-wallet info
grin-wallet help

That will get you started, but... better to read how to use a wallet here.

I want to run a node

Run a node to help secure the network... and because you need a full node in order to use your wallet. You could connect to any node out there that will allow you to, but ... let's run one locally and use that!

Again, this is so easy! Open up a different terminal than your wallet and...

grin-node

Yup. That's it! Type in the grin-node command and a graphical-ish dashboard comes up and you are rolling.

Again, all data is stored, by default, in ~/.grin/ to run your own node and then have your wallet connect to it.

I want to run a grin miner

1. Terminal window one:
   • Get a node running (see above)
   • Shut it down: q
   • Edit ~/.grin/main/grin-server.toml
   • Change enable_stratum_server = false to enable_stratum_server = true
   • Start the grin node again: grin-node
2. Terminal window two:
   • Create a wallet if you haven't already (see above)
   • Run the wallet in listening mode grin-wallet listen
   • The wallet will stay running ... and be listening. :)
3. Terminal window three:
   The grin miner is a bit more quirky than the rest, so... pay attention!
   • Copy the default grin-miner.toml file to your local data directory...

     cp /var/lib/grin/grin-miner.toml ~/.grin/
     

   • Change the mining algorithm, if you know what you are doing. Read more about that here
   • Run the miner from the .grin directory. Yup. Odd, but that is the way it is...

     cd ~/.grin
     grin-miner
     

   • Congratulations. You are now mining for GRIN.

That pretty much sums up the very very basics of getting your environment set up and embracing a couple use cases.

Good luck! -t0dd or taw in most chat platforms and forums

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Check out all my crypto-oriented RPM builds:

• Dash (my longest running and tested builds): https://github.com/taw00/dashcore-rpm
• Electrum-Dash: https://github.com/taw00/electrum-dash-rpm (experimental)
• ZCash: https://github.com/taw00/zcash-rpm
• Beam: https://github.com/taw00/beam-rpm
• Grin: https://github.com/taw00/grin-rpm
• IPFS: https://github.com/taw00/ipfs-rpm (experimental)