/craveberry-pi

install Crave on a Raspberry Pi using Ansible

Craveberry Pi

Builds CraveNG on a Raspberry pi.

Building block for a masternode setup.

base OS

Tested on Debian Jessie 8.0 on a Rpi v3.

setup

  • install Ansible (2.x) on your host machine
  • if you've renamed your pi, set correct hostname(s) in 'hosts'
  • if you're not using the stock 'pi' user, set ansible_ssh_user' in 'hosts'
  • setup passwordless SSH as ansible_ssh_user (i.e. copy up a pubkey to the pi by hand)

You'll need a working internet connection for the install.

Ansible

You can verify connectivity by running:

ansible -i hosts all -m ping

and you should see 'pong' from your raspberrypi.

(If you haven't set up an SSH key like i told you to, run

ansible -i hosts all -m ping -k

and provide the ssh password - default is 'raspberry'. please change it.)

Run the main play with:

ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml

Warning: it'll take a good hour or two. gcc is pretty slow on a pi.

Quick overview (check the roles for actual details):

  • install dev packages
  • download, build and install libdb4.8
  • create and enable a small (512Mb) swapfile to allow the compilation
  • checkout Crave from github and build it

The resulting binaries are in /home/pi/crave-ng/src

Next steps

I thought about adding another role to setup crave.conf, etc. But then you'd be trusting me to configure your masternode, which I doubt you'd be happy with.

But you can pick this up on page 8 of the setup guide.

I'll add a systemd role soon, to keep craved running on crashes, etc.

Bugs

Yeah, probably. Hit me up on the usual social media things, same username as here.

Donations

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