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#Before you start

This guide outlines how to set up an Avail light client Version v1.7.5-rc6 on Ubuntu.

Run-Avail-Light-Client-

A.Run the Pre-Built Release

sudo apt update
sudo apt install make clang pkg-config libssl-dev build-essential

mkdir -p ${HOME}/avail-light

cd avail-light

wget https://github.com/availproject/avail-light/releases/download/v1.7.5-rc6/avail-light-linux-amd64.tar.gz

tar -xvzf avail-light-linux-amd64.tar.gz
cp avail-light-linux-amd64 avail-light

./avail-light --network goldberg

** Create Systemd file **

touch /etc/systemd/system/availd.service
nano /etc/systemd/system/availd.service

** put it into Avail service**

[Unit] 
Description=Avail Light Client
After=network.target
StartLimitIntervalSec=0
[Service] 
User=root 
ExecStart=/root/avail-light/avail-light --network goldberg
Restart=always 
RestartSec=120
[Install] 
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Save it: CTRL+X -- Yes .

To enable this to autostart on bootup run:

systemctl enable availd.service

Start it manually with:

systemctl start availd.service

You can check that it's working with:

systemctl status availd.service

You can tail the logs with journalctllike so:

journalctl -f -u availd

B. Built from the source:

Install Rust

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install --assume-yes git clang curl libssl-dev protobuf-compiler
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source ~/.cargo/env
rustup default stable
rustup update
rustup update nightly
rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown --toolchain nightly

You can run the Avail Light Client using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/availproject/avail-light.git
cd avail-light
git checkout v1.7.5-rc6
cargo build --release

Create Systemd file

touch /etc/systemd/system/availd.service
nano /etc/systemd/system/availd.service