Installing Quorum and constellation
Now we are quite confident about the Quorum's consensus protocols, Ethereum accounts, transactions, and private contracts. It's time to build a Quorum network. Before that, we need to learn how to install Quorum and constellation. Remember that constellation is optional and should only be integrated in the Quorum network if private contracts are required.
The best way to install Quorum and constellation is to build the source code. In this book, we will concentrate on steps for Ubuntu and macOS only. You can find Quorum's source code at https://github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum , whereas you can find constellation source code at https://github.com/jpmorganchase/constellation.
Following are the three basic commands to build Quorum from source code:
git clone https://github.com/jpmorganchase/quorum.git cd quorum make all
Now, go into the build/bin/
directory and you will find the geth
executable, which is the node software for running the Quorum node. Also, you...