installing-elastos-carrier-bootstrap.md

Installing Elastos Carrier Bootstrap

Running the following command to install and configure Elastos Carrier Bootstrap.

$ ~/node/node.sh carrier init

Finding the latest carrier release...
INFO: Latest version: 6.0.1
Downloading https://download.elastos.io/elastos-carrier/elastos-carrier-6.0.1/elastos-carrier-6.0.1-linux-x86_64.tgz...
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Extracting elastos-carrier-6.0.1-linux-x86_64.tgz...
'/home/ubuntu/node/.node-upload/carrier/usr/bin/ela-bootstrapd' -> '/home/ubuntu/node/carrier/ela-bootstrapd'
Creating carrier config file...
mkdir: created directory '/home/ubuntu/node/carrier/var'
mkdir: created directory '/home/ubuntu/node/carrier/var/lib'
mkdir: created directory '/home/ubuntu/node/carrier/var/lib/ela-bootstrapd'
mkdir: created directory '/home/ubuntu/node/carrier/var/lib/ela-bootstrapd/db'
mkdir: created directory '/home/ubuntu/node/carrier/var/run'
mkdir: created directory '/home/ubuntu/node/carrier/var/run/ela-bootstrapd'
INFO: carrier config file: /home/ubuntu/node/carrier/bootstrapd.conf
OK: carrier initialized

The init command will try to find the server's public IP automatically, and record the result in carrier config file. You can check it by running:

$ cat ~/node/carrier/bootstrapd.conf | grep external_ip