How To Install abci on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install abci
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is abci
abci is:
Blockchains are a system for multi-master state machine replication. ABCI (Application BlockChain Interface) is an interface that defines the boundary between the replication engine (the blockchain), and the state machine (the application). By using a socket protocol, Tendermint enable a consensus engine running in one process to manage an application state running in another.
Previously, the ABCI was just referred to as TMSP.
There are three methods to install abci
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install abci Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install abci
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install abci
Install abci Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install abci
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install abci
Install abci Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install abci
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install abci
How To Uninstall abci on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the abci
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove abci
Uninstall abci And Its Dependencies
To uninstall abci
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove abci
Remove abci Configurations and Data
To remove abci
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge abci
Remove abci configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove abci
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge abci
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install abci
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.