# Node Installation

## [EXPLORER](https://explorer.stavr.tech/Althea-Mainnet)

* **Minimum hardware requirements**:

| Node Type | CPU | RAM  | Storage |
| --------- | --- | ---- | ------- |
| Mainnet   | 8   | 16GB | 250GB   |

## 1) Auto\_install script

```bash
source <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Althea/altheam)
```

## 2) Manual installation

#### Preparing the server

```bash
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt install curl tar wget clang pkg-config libssl-dev jq build-essential bsdmainutils git make ncdu gcc git jq chrony liblz4-tool -y
```

### GO 1.21.6

```bash
ver="1.21.6"
wget "https://golang.org/dl/go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
rm "go$ver.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
go version
```

## Build 11.11.25

```bash
cd $HOME && mkdir -p go/bin/
git clone https://github.com/AltheaFoundation/althea-L1/
cd $HOME/althea-L1 && git pull
git checkout v1.6.0
make install
```

`althea version --long | head`

* version: v1.6.0
* commit: 7c26a8c62f07bb1754c8d6c89e8ef54912a1df6e

## Initiation

```python
althea init STAVR_guide --chain-id=althea_258432-1
althea config chain-id althea_258432-1
```

### Create/recover wallet

```bash
althea keys add <walletname>
           OR
althea keys add <walletname> --recover
```

### Download Genesis

```python
wget -O $HOME/.althea/config/genesis.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AltheaFoundation/althea-L1-docs/main/althea-l1-mainnet-genesis.json"
```

`sha256sum $HOME/.althea/config/genesis.json`

* cfe4c408e759bdc64fb2c12db653ce385dbbbf73d593d5eb4ba6cd1f9a67c15f

### Set up the minimum gas price and Peers/Seeds/Filter peers/MaxPeers

```bash
sed -i.bak -e "s/^minimum-gas-prices *=.*/minimum-gas-prices = \"0.0aalthea\"/;" ~/.althea/config/app.toml
external_address=$(wget -qO- eth0.me) 
sed -i.bak -e "s/^external_address *=.*/external_address = \"$external_address:26656\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
peers="4d9c73a9e541453b56add8fadf0839fd1442d979@15.235.115.155:17200,a0eca501485cc74e0568973ef502d05023f6500d@158.247.226.255:17200,ab9a9e6ea747839652dfe4480e66a5eb78a385e8@51.81.167.60:17200,46ad21a616527181ea3d992339268a5a25c771fa@95.216.38.96:14656"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
seeds=""
sed -i.bak -e "s/^seeds =.*/seeds = \"$seeds\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_inbound_peers =.*/max_num_inbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
sed -i 's/max_num_outbound_peers =.*/max_num_outbound_peers = 50/g' $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
```

#### Pruning (optional)

```bash
pruning="custom"
pruning_keep_recent="1000"
pruning_keep_every="0"
pruning_interval="10"
sed -i -e "s/^pruning *=.*/pruning = \"$pruning\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-recent *=.*/pruning-keep-recent = \"$pruning_keep_recent\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-keep-every *=.*/pruning-keep-every = \"$pruning_keep_every\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/app.toml
sed -i -e "s/^pruning-interval *=.*/pruning-interval = \"$pruning_interval\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/app.toml
```

#### Indexer (optional)

```bash
indexer="null" &&
sed -i -e "s/^indexer *=.*/indexer = \"$indexer\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
```

### Download addrbook

```bash
wget -O $HOME/.althea/config/addrbook.json "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/111STAVR111/props/main/Althea/addrbook.json"
```

## Create a service file

```bash
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/althea.service > /dev/null <<EOF
[Unit]
Description=althea
After=network-online.target

[Service]
User=$USER
ExecStart=$(which althea) start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
LimitNOFILE=65535

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
```

## StateSync Althea Mainnet

```bash
systemctl stop althea
SNAP_RPC=https://althea.rpc.m.stavr.tech:443
peers="063fec5334040572f55b06f9ff6284d0f2f01ced@althea.peers.stavr.tech:17886"
sed -i.bak -e "s/^persistent_peers *=.*/persistent_peers = \"$peers\"/" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
LATEST_HEIGHT=$(curl -s $SNAP_RPC/block | jq -r .result.block.header.height); \
BLOCK_HEIGHT=$((LATEST_HEIGHT - 1000)); \
TRUST_HASH=$(curl -s "$SNAP_RPC/block?height=$BLOCK_HEIGHT" | jq -r .result.block_id.hash)

echo $LATEST_HEIGHT $BLOCK_HEIGHT $TRUST_HASH

sed -i.bak -E "s|^(enable[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1true| ; \
s|^(rpc_servers[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$SNAP_RPC,$SNAP_RPC\"| ; \
s|^(trust_height[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1$BLOCK_HEIGHT| ; \
s|^(trust_hash[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"$TRUST_HASH\"| ; \
s|^(seeds[[:space:]]+=[[:space:]]+).*$|\1\"\"|" $HOME/.althea/config/config.toml
althea tendermint unsafe-reset-all --home /root/.althea
sudo systemctl restart althea && journalctl -fu althea -o cat
```

## SnapShot Mainnet - updated every 5 hours

{% hint style="success" %}
[<mark style="color:orange;">**https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Althea/**</mark>](https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Althea/)
{% endhint %}

```bash
cd $HOME
apt install lz4
sudo systemctl stop althea
cp $HOME/.althea/data/priv_validator_state.json $HOME/.althea/priv_validator_state.json.backup
rm -rf $HOME/.althea/data
LATEST_SNAPSHOT=$(curl -s https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Althea/ | grep -oE 'althea-snap-[0-9]+\.tar\.lz4' | while read SNAPSHOT; do HEIGHT=$(curl -s "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Althea/${SNAPSHOT%.tar.lz4}-info.txt" | awk '/Block height:/ {print $3}'); echo "$SNAPSHOT $HEIGHT"; done | sort -k2 -nr | head -n 1 | awk '{print $1}')
curl -o - -L https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Althea/$LATEST_SNAPSHOT | lz4 -c -d - | tar -x -C $HOME/.althea
mv $HOME/.althea/priv_validator_state.json.backup $HOME/.althea/data/priv_validator_state.json
wget -O $HOME/.althea/config/addrbook.json "https://server-1.stavr.tech/Mainnet/Althea/addrbook.json"
sudo systemctl restart althea && journalctl -fu althea -o cat
```

### Start

```bash
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable althea
sudo systemctl restart althea && sudo journalctl -fu althea -o cat
```

#### Create validator

```python
althea tx staking create-validator \
--commission-rate 0.1 \
--commission-max-rate 1 \
--commission-max-change-rate 1 \
--min-self-delegation "1" \
--amount 1000000000000000000aalthea \
--pubkey $(althea tendermint show-validator) \
--from <wallet> \
--moniker="STAVR_guide" \
--chain-id althea_258432-1 \
--gas 300000 \
--fees 30000000000000000aalthea \
--identity="" \
--website="" \
--details="" -y
```

## [🧩Services and Tools🧩](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/mainnets/althea/statesync-snapshot)

## Monitoring

You can set up your node status alarm here - [Monitoring](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/monitoring)

## Security

You can create secure management of your wallet and your node by following this links.

[TMKMS](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/tmkms)               [Wallet Security](https://stavr-team.gitbook.io/nodes-guides/wallet-security)

### Delete node

```bash
sudo systemctl stop althea
sudo systemctl disable althea
rm /etc/systemd/system/althea.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
cd $HOME
rm -rf althea-chain
rm -rf .althea
rm -rf $(which althea)
```


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