How to run an Algorand node on Ubuntu

General
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Hey guys,

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Tried following the directions for the Ubuntu installation, however I feel some steps are missing (see https://developer.algorand.org/docs/introduction-installing-node#sync-node )

Could someone point me to updated instructions on installing a node and connecting to the wallet via nano ledger S?

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y gnupg2 curl software-properties-common curl -O https://releases.algorand.com/key.pub sudo apt-key add key.pub sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://releases.algorand.com/deb/ stable main" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y algorand algod -v

Then ran :

goal node status -d data

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Error:

Algorand node failed to start: node exited before we could contact it

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The command:

pgrep algod

Returns:

4051

every time, block number doesn’t change.

Thanks!

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Hi,

One reason might be that data is not a valid data folder.
If you install the node using the DEB package as you did, the data directory is /var/lib/algorand.

Can you send data/algod-err.log and /var/lib/algorand/algod-err.log if this does not solve your issue?