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Installing Daemon

This guide walks through the step-by-step process of building the Zel daemon/CLI from the open-source repository on Github

Zel Github

Recommended System Specs:

2 or more CPU threads
64-bit Linux (Ubuntu 18.04)
4+ GB RAM
25+ GB Storage

Warning

If setting up a ZelNode, follow XXXX Guide
Running a standard p2p node does not reward ZEL

Building for Linux⚓︎

Info

We officially support Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver". Source has been tested for most popular Ubuntu, Debian & Fedora distros.

Install Ubuntu/Debian dependencies⚓︎

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y && 
sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 \
g++-multilib autoconf libtool ncurses-dev unzip git python \
python-zmq zlib1g-dev wget curl bsdmainutils automake -y

Install Fedora dependencies⚓︎

Warning

Only do this step if not using Ubuntu/Debian

sudo dnf install git pkgconfig automake autoconf ncurses-devel \
python python-zmq wget gtest-devel gcc gcc-c++ libtool curl patch -y

Build zelcashd⚓︎

git clone https://github.com/zelcash/zelcash.git &&
cd zelcash &&
git checkout master &&
./zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)

Fetch Parameter files⚓︎

./zcutil/fetch-params.sh

Create Config File⚓︎

mkdir ~/.zelcash
echo "rpcuser=username" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf
echo "rpcpassword=`head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64`" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf 
echo "rpcallowip=127.0.0.1" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf
echo "addnode=explorer.zel.cash" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf
echo "addnode=explorer.zel.zelcore.io" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf
echo "txindex=1" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf
echo "server=1" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf

Run zelcashd⚓︎

./src/zelcashd

Building for Mac⚓︎

Install Dependencies⚓︎

xcode-select --install 
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install cmake autoconf libtool automake coreutils pkgconfig gmp wget
brew install gcc5 --without-multilib

Build⚓︎

git clone https://github.com/zelcash/zelcash.git
cd zelcash
git checkout master
./zcutil/build.sh -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)

Fetch Parameter files⚓︎

./zcutil/fetch-params.sh

Create Config File⚓︎

mkdir ~/.zelcash
echo "rpcuser=username" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf
echo "rpcpassword=`head -c 32 /dev/urandom | base64`" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf
echo "rpcallowip=127.0.0.1" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf
echo "addnode=explorer.zel.cash" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf
echo "addnode=explorer.zel.zelcore.io" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf
echo "txindex=1" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf
echo "server=1" >> ~/.zelcash/zelcash.conf

Run zelcashd⚓︎

./src/zelcashd

Building for Windows⚓︎

Install Dependencies⚓︎

sudo apt-get install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev m4 g++-multilib autoconf libtool ncurses-dev cmake unzip git python zlib1g-dev wget bsdmainutils automake mingw-w64 curl

Build zelcashd⚓︎

git clone https://github.com/zelcash/zelcash.git
cd zelcash
git checkout master
./zcutil/build-win.sh -j$(nproc)

Create Config File⚓︎

Create folder: %AppData%/Roaming/zelcash
Create a *.txt file zelcash.conf in above folder. Copy/paste the below into TXT file and save, then close.
Change RPC username & password 

rpcuser=randomusername
rpcpassword=RandomPasswordChangeme
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1 
addnode=explorer.zel.cash
addnode=explorer.zel.zelcore.io
txindex=1
server=1

Download the below links into this folder

https://zelcore.io/zelcore/sapling-output.params
https://zelcore.io/zelcore/sapling-spend.params
https://zelcore.io/zelcore/sprout-groth16.params
https://zelcore.io/zelcore/sprout-proving.key
https://zelcore.io/zelcore/sprout-verifying.key

Run zelcashd⚓︎

zelcashd.exe

Install using APT repo⚓︎

Tip

The APT repo works with many popular Ubuntu & Debian distros.

echo 'deb https://zelcash.github.io/aptrepo/ all main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zelcash.list &&
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 4B69CA27A986265D &&
gpg --export 4B69CA27A986265D | sudo apt-key add - &&
sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get install zelcash
This installs zelcashd, zelcash-cli, zelcash-tx & zelcash-fetch-params.sh 
bash zelcash-fetch-params.sh

Note

Create Config File as shown in the example