Installing Lisk on Gentoo

README.md

Ebuilds for Lisk Core and Lisky are available in the unofficial sevcsik overlay. Add the overlay (using Layman):

# layman -fa sevcsik

Lisk Core

1. Install the lisk-core package.

# emerge -av net-p2p/lisk-core::sevcsik

2. If you haven't run PostgreSQL before, you'll need to initialise it first.

# emerge --config =dev-db/postgresql-<version>

3. Start PostgreSQL and initialise the database. This will create the necessary user and database, and import the latest blockchain snapshot.

# systemctl start postgresql-<version>
# emerge --config =net-p2p/lisk-core-<version>

4. Start the service.

# systemctl start lisk-core.service

Note: Currently the ebuilds only ship with Systemd units. To start the node on an OpenRC-based installation, run the application manally.

# cd /usr/lib/lisk-core
# sudo -u lisk-core node app -c /etc/lisk-core/config.json

5. Your Lisk Core node should now be available at http://localhost:8000.

Lisky, Lisk Nano

Just install the ebuilds, and the executables will be available globally.

# emerge -av net-p2p/lisky::sevcsik
# emerge -av net-p2p/lisk-nano::sevcsik