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rust and cardano-cli on a RockPi4

Note: this guide is written in early 2019 for Debian Stretch.

Add the following two lines to /etc/bash.bashrc

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export RUSTUP_USE_HYPER=1

export PATH="$HOME/.cargo/bin":$PATH

install the following packages

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sudo apt-get install curl linux-compiler-gcc-9-arm llvm clang-4.0 git build-essential

Now download the Rust installation package from www.rust-lang.org
You need the link for the latest stable release arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz
By assuming the version is 1.33.0 use

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cd /tmp

curl https://static.rust-lang.org/dist/rust-1.33.0-arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz > rust-install-tmp.tar.gz

tar -xvzf rust-install-tmp.tar.gz

rm rust-install-tmp.tar.gz

cd rust-1.33.0-arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf

sudo ./install.sh

cd ..

rm -r rust-1.33.0-arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf

Now let’s clone cardano-cli from input-output-hk project repository and build & install the binaries

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cd ~

git clone https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-cli.git --recursive

cd cardano-cli

cargo install

the build process take some time (on a RackPi4 it was ~13 minutes)
At the end when cargo confirms a successful build (ignore the warnings) add the new build binary path to your PATH variable.

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cd ~

nano .bashrc

add at the end of the file

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export PATH="/home/linaro/.cargo/bin":$PATH

Now you should be able to use the cardano command line interface on your RockPi4

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cardano-cli blockchain new mainnet

cardano-cli blockchain pull mainnet

cardano-cli wallet create "Test wallet"

cardano-cli wallet attach "Test wallet" mainnet

cardano-cli wallet sync "Test wallet"

cardano-cli wallet status "Test wallet"