Install latest/stable of Polkadot
Ubuntu 16.04 or later?
Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.
Polkadot is a multi-chain framework that enables interoperability and scalability for multiple blockchains. See: https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk
Hardware requirements can be found here: https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/maintain-guides-how-to-validate-polkadot#standard-hardware
Start the service with 'sudo snap start polkadot'
Check logs from the Polkadot service with 'snap logs polkadot -f'
Supported configuration options for the snap:
service-args [default=--base-path=$SNAP_COMMON/polkadot_base --name=<hostname>] For available arguments see https://github.com/paritytech/polkadot-sdk The value set here will be passed to the Polkadot binary with a few exceptions listed below.
$SNAP_COMMON/polkadot_base
and is not allowed to be configured.endure [default=false] If true the Polkadot service will not be restarted after a snap refresh. Note that the Polkadot service will still be restarted as the result of changing service-args, etc.
Use this when restarts should be avoided e.g. when running a validator.
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