How to obtain the STEEM client
One popular client for STEEM is known as steemd. Witnesses, seeds, and miners all run this client. Other clients - such as Steemit.com and Busy.org - are not independent clients, but rely on Steemd to function. Steemd is open source and is available on Github here: https://github.com/steemit/steem
Some Operating System's have binaries available, however you may have to compile the client in some cases.
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Running CLI Wallet without a Steem Daemon
You can run CLI Wallet against any public seed if you don't have the resources (or just don't want) to run steemd.
cli_wallet -s wss://rpc.buildteam.io
If you're on Windows, you may need to download cacert.pem to avoid SSL errors:
Download here: https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem
With cacert in the same directory, you can now run:
cli_wallet -a cacert.pem -s wss://rpc.buildteam.io
Windows
Binaries
There are binaries (pre-compiled client) available for Windows, they are built by @bitcube.
The latest binaries (0.13.0) are available here: https://steemit.com/steem/@bitcube/steem-windows-wallet-and-miner-v0-13-0
Compilation instructions
Unknown
OSX
Binaries
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Compilation instructions
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Ubuntu/Debian Linux
Binaries
A prebuilt docker image has been produced. This works across all Linux (and possibly OSX/Windows) platforms as it is self contained.
docker pull steemit/steem
The docker image contains steemd and cli_wallet. See steemit/steem github quickstart documentation for details how to get started with the docker image.
There are no known prebuilt .deb packages as of yet.
Compilation instructions
These instructions have been tested on a completely untouched Ubuntu 16.04 - for older versions, or different debian derivatives, you may need to alter package names, or compile them by hand.
Some parts of these instructions have been copied from https://steem.io/documentation/how-to-build/ with several additions, including many missing dependencies, and correct submodule initialization.
Step 1 - Obtaining the dependencies
apt-get update apt-get install -y gcc-4.9 g++-4.9 cmake make libbz2-dev libdb++-dev libdb-dev apt-get install -y libssl-dev openssl libreadline-dev autoconf libtool git apt-get install -y autotools-dev build-essential g++ libbz2-dev libicu-dev python-dev wget doxygen python3 python3-dev
Step 2 - Build Boost 1.60
Unfortunately, even with 16.04, the latest Boost available is 1.59 - because of this you'll need to compile BOOST by hand.
Please be aware this process can take upwards of 1 hour or longer depending on how powerful your system is.
export BOOST_ROOT=$HOME/opt/boost_1_60_0 && \ wget -c 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.60.0/boost_1_60_0.tar.bz2/download'-O boost_1_60_0.tar.bz2 tar xjf boost_1_60_0.tar.bz2 cd boost_1_60_0/ ./bootstrap.sh "--prefix=$BOOST_ROOT" ./b2 install
Step 3 - Build Steemd
cd ~ git clone https://github.com/steemit/steem.git cd steem git submodule update --init --recursive
export BOOST_ROOT=$HOME/opt/boost_1_60_0 cmake -DBOOST_ROOT="$BOOST_ROOT" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release . make && sudo make install
Step 4 - Configure Steem
First, make sure you're in the directory where you want your data files to go. Steem will create a folder called witness_node_data_dir in whatever directory you're currently in.
Once you're sure this is where you want the data dir to go, run Steem to generate a config file:
/usr/local/bin/steemd
Press Ctrl-C after Steem starts up, this is to simply allow it to generate a config file.
Now, you can open config.ini and modify to your requirements. It's recommended to remove the account_history history plugin unless you know you're using it.
vim witness_node_data_dir/config.ini # or nano, whatever your preferred text editor is
Be aware that you'll need to add some seed nodes to config.ini for your steem daemon to work. The seed ran by the owner of this wiki is seed.steem.network (a better alias for steemit-seed.someguy123.com) You can find up-to-date steem seeds at http://status.steemnodes.com
seed-node = seed.steem.network:2001 seed-node = seed.riversteem.com:2001 seed-node = 52.74.152.79:2001
Once you've done this, you'll be able to launch steemd correctly using (will not fork into the background, so may want to run it in screen/tmux):
$ /usr/local/bin/steemd --rpc-endpoint --replay-blockchain
You can check the status of your steem daemon by running cli_wallet and running the info command
$ /usr/local/bin/cli_wallet --------------------- >>> info { ... "head_block_num": 1234, "head_block_age": "19 weeks old", ... }
Links
- @bitcube : Steem Windows Wallet and Miner v0.13.0 August 15th, 2016
Related articles
In other languages
- 繁體中文 (Chinese, Traditional) : 取得STEEM客戶端
- 日本語 (Japanese): STEEMクライアントの入手方法
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