Install Quadrans on Raspberry Pi¶
What is Raspberry Pi¶
The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer developed by Raspberry Pi Foundation. It can run Linux operating system. Recent models use Broadcom SoC, and could have 1, 2 or 4 GB of RAM.
Raspberry Pi 3/4¶
Quadrans Technical Team tested the arm7 binary (32bit) in combination with Raspberry OS operating system with the Raspberry devboards.
Models tested are:
Raspberry Pi 4
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+
Suggested Operating System¶
Raspberry OS (32 bit)
Installation guides are available in the official Raspberry website
Ubuntu (64 bit)
Self-installing go-quadrans binary via Quadrans Installer¶
This bash script allows you to install or update your node on various Linux distributions.
wget http://repo.quadrans.io/installer/gqdc-installer.sh
sudo bash gqdc-installer.sh
The installation process will ask for a node name and a password if you want to create a wallet to became a Quadrans Miner.
This tool allow you to update your node if needed.
Enable your node for mining¶
Go to Mining and Reward chapter of this Wiki.
Manually build go-quadrans from source¶
Please refer to the guide build go-quadrans from source to compile the binary from the source code.
Useful command line options¶
After downloading, run gqdc to connect your node to the Quadrans Network. Make sure to check the different options and commands with gqdc --help
To set your data directory:
gqdc -datadir datadir_path
To show your node in the Quadrans Network Status page:
gqdc --ethstats "Your Node Name":QuadransStatsNetwork@status.quadrans.io:3000
To create a new Quadrans wallet create a password inside a text file and execute the following command:
gqdc account new --password Your_Password_File.txt
To execute the node as a Miner:
gqdc --mine --unlock 0xYour_Wallet_Address --password Your_Password_File.txt
To connect to Quadrans Testnet (download the last test Quadrans node binary).
Connect the node to Testnet¶
Please read the How to setup your node for testnet documentation.
Important¶
You can move from Testnet to Mainnet at any time but you can’t connect to the two networks at the same time.