Manual for setting up the environment in Windows for Cellframe Node

You need a WSL subsystem installed. Use any kind of terminal (powershell, MSYS, etc) and run as administrator:

wsl --install

This command enables the functions necessary to run WSL and installs ubuntu distro in WSL environment. After installing WSL, you need to create a user account and set a password for the installed Linux distribution.

The deb package requires a version of Ubuntu at least 20.04. If you are using an another version, you can change it:

wsl --set-version Ubuntu 2

Retrieve the Cellframe Node installation package from pub.cellframe.net by following:

wget https://pub.cellframe.net/linux/cellframe-node/master/<name-of-package.deb>

Then install this package using either of the following methods:

sudo apt install ./<name-of-packadge.deb>

or

sudo dpkg -i <name-of-package.deb>

Warning

When installing via a command dpkg where dependencies are not installed, you may need to manually install dependencies and use following command:

 

sudo apt —fix-broken install

Later, after successful installation the node configuration settings will apper. Configure it according to your requirements. You can adjust it later using configuration description.