Installation f(x)Core

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This guide will explain how to install the fxcored CLI onto your system. With this installed on a server, you can participate on the mainnet as either a Full Node or a Validator.
Additionally, you may refer to this YouTube tutorial video **** to set up your validator.
Hardware Requirements
We recommend the following for running f(x)Core:
4 or more CPU cores
At least 500G of disk storage
At least 8G of memory
At least 10mbps network bandwidth
To see a quick cloud setup on how to setup and deploy it on the cloud.
Install build requirements
Install make and gcc.
On Ubuntu this can be done with the following commands:
Ubuntu
Mac
Windows
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y make gcc
Ps: sudo apt-get install -y make gcc may have encountered a problem with locked files, just try sudo apt-get install -y make gcc again.
Ensure you have Homebrew installed.
Once you have Homebrew installed, you may run the following commands to install make :
brew install make
and gcc:
brew install gcc
We'll be needing these commands later so let's install the necessary packages:
brew install git
brew install wget
You will need to run git bash. You may find the installation link here.
Ensure you have make and gcc installed and that the paths are set correctly for git bash.
One option for installing gcc can be found here.
You may select tdm64-gcc-10.3.0-2
Restart gitbash after installing
One option for installing make is using chocolate , more information can be found here.
Once you have chocolate installed, run this command:
make sure to run gitbash as administrator mode if the following commands do not work
choco install make
Ensure you have all the necessary dependencies and compilers.
gcc --version
will return:
gcc.exe (tdm64-1) 10.3.0
Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
and for make:
make --version
will return:
GNU Make 4.3
Built for Windows32
Copyright (C) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Install Go
All other environments
If you are remoting into a terminal
Install go by following the official docs. Please select your respective environment❗
For Ubuntu environment, there may be permissions denied issues with unzipping the go zip file, try using sudo su to resolve it.
Especially if you are remoting into a Ubuntu terminal, run this command to download the go installer:
wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.18.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz 
After you have downloaded the package and you may proceed to step 2 of the official docs. Choose your system OS and follow the instructions stated.
Go 1.18+ or later is required for the f(x)Core. If you are remoting into a terminal, you may input the following command:
Setting environment variables:
mkdir -p $HOME/go/bin
echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" >> ~/.profile
echo "export PATH=$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin" >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile
Install the binaries
Next, let's install the latest version of f(x)Core. Make sure you have git installed if not you will be prompted to install git. Follow the instruction in the terminal.
Mainnet
Testnet
Windows
git clone --branch release/v2.2.x https://github.com/functionx/fx-core.git
cd fx-core
git clone --branch release/v2.3.x https://github.com/functionx/fx-core.git
cd fx-core
You should run your commands in gitbash. But open fxcored.exe file using cmd prompt
Make sure the name of your folder does not have whitespaces!
git clone https://github.com/functionx/fx-core.git
cd fx-core
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All Other Environments 
Windows 
make go.sum
make install
make go.sum
make build-win
use cmd prompt to open the fxcored.exe file
in the path ./build/bin/fxcored.exe
That will install the fxcored binary. Verify network:
the following command will not be available in v2.0.x and above
fxcored network
The output should look something similar to this:
Mainnet
Testnet
{
    "ChainId": "fxcore",
    "CrossChainSupportBscBlock": "1354000",
    "CrossChainSupportPolygonBlock": "2062000",
    "CrossChainSupportTronBlock": "2062000",
    "GravityPruneValsetsAndAttestationBlock": "610000",
    "GravityValsetSlashBlock": "1685000",
    "Network": "mainnet"
}
{
  "ChainId": "dhobyghaut",
  "EIP155ChainID": "90001",
  "IBCRouterBlock": "3433511",
  "Network": "testnet"
}
Mainnet ChainId: fxcore
Testnet ChainId: dhobyghaut
EVM Mainnet ChainId: 530
EVM Testnet ChainId: 90001
Verify version:
Long version
Short version
fxcored version --long
fxcored version
fxcored version --long should output something similar to:
name: fxcore
server_name: fxcored
version: main-757603244376759f872158ea254ae501d046e094
commit: 757603244376759f872158ea254ae501d046e094
build_tags: netgo,ledger
go: go version go1.18 darwin/amd64
build_deps:
...
cosmos_sdk_version: v0.45.5
Build Tags
Build tags indicate special features that have been enabled in the binary.
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netgo
Name resolution will use pure Go code
ledger
Ledger devices are supported (hardware wallets)
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