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Installation

At the time of writing, fabriclaunch has only been tested with Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04.

These are the tools you'll need to install:

  • cfssl: to generate certificates and certificate authorities (CAs)
  • Golang: to run chaincodes
  • Fabric tools: to interact with the Hyperledger Fabric network, including:
    • peer: to run peers
    • orderer: to run orderers
    • osnadmin: to join the ordering service nodes to the channel
    • discover: to discover peers in the channel
  • fabriclaunch: to create and manage your Hyperledger Fabric network

Install cfssl​

To install cfssl, run the following commands:

wget https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl/releases/download/v1.6.5/cfssl_1.6.5_linux_amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/cfssl
wget https://github.com/cloudflare/cfssl/releases/download/v1.6.5/cfssljson_1.6.5_linux_amd64 -O /usr/local/bin/cfssljson
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/cfssl
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/cfssljson

Install Golang​

To install Golang, run the following commands:

wget "https://go.dev/dl/go1.22.5.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go*.tar.gz
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin

Install Fabric tools​

To install the Fabric tools, run the following commands:

curl -sSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hyperledger/fabric/main/scripts/install-fabric.sh 
chmod +x install-fabric.sh
./install-fabric.sh --fabric-version 2.5.9 binary

# and then move the binaries to your PATH

mv bin/discover /usr/local/bin/discover
mv bin/orderer /usr/local/bin/orderer
mv bin/osnadmin /usr/local/bin/osnadmin
mv bin/peer /usr/local/bin/peer

Install fabriclaunch​

To install fabriclaunch, run the following commands:

wget https://fabriclaunch.com/fabriclaunch 
chmod +x fabriclaunch 
mv fabriclaunch /usr/local/bin/fabriclaunch