Standalone Installation

Linux/MacOS

• install java 17 or newer (brew install java on MacOS, sudo apt install openjdk-17-jre on Debian/Ubuntu, check a how-to for your psecific system)

• extract the weavechain node

  wget https://public.weavechain.com/file/node-1.39.tar.bz2
  tar -xf node-1.39.tar.bz2
  chmod a+x node-1.39/bin/node

• create the folders for config files and storage

  mkdir config
  mkdir storage

• generate a new key pair and demo configs

  node-1.39/bin/node -kfs config

• start the node

  node-1.39/bin/node config/demo.config

Windows

• install Chocolatey: https://chocolatey.org/install
• start a new Powershell with Adminstrator rights
• install wget, bzip2 and Java if not already present

  choco install wget
  choco install bzip2
  choco install openjdk17

• create a new folder for the node and go to it, for example

  mkdir c:\weavechain
  cd /d c:\weavechain

• extract the weavechain node

  curl -O https://public.weavechain.com/file/node-1.39.tar.bz2
  tar -xf node-1.39.tar.bz2

• create the folders for config files and storage

  mkdir config
  mkdir storage

• generate a new key pair and demo configs

  node-1.39\bin\node.bat -kfs config

• start the node

  node-1.39\bin\node.bat config\demo.config