How To Install merkleeyes on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install merkleeyes on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is merkleeyes
merkleeyes is:
Simple ABCI application serving a merkle-tree key-value store. Merkleeyes allows inserts and removes by key, and queries by key or index. Inserts and removes happen through the DeliverTx message, while queries happen through the Query message. CheckTx simply mirrors DeliverTx.
ABCI is Tendermint’s Serverside Blockchain API, whilst Tendermint Core is Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) middleware that takes a state transition machine, written in any programming language, and replicates it on manymachines.
There are three methods to install merkleeyes 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 merkleeyes Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install merkleeyes using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install merkleeyes
Install merkleeyes Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install merkleeyes using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install merkleeyes
Install merkleeyes 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 merkleeyes using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install merkleeyes
How To Uninstall merkleeyes on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the merkleeyes package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove merkleeyes
Uninstall merkleeyes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall merkleeyes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove merkleeyes
Remove merkleeyes Configurations and Data
To remove merkleeyes configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge merkleeyes
Remove merkleeyes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove merkleeyes configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge merkleeyes
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install merkleeyes package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
