Similar to installing a Bitcoin Core full node , you can run a Lightning Node too. The same developer dependencies are needed.
Prepare your build environment to compile the Lightning Node#
The next steps will install a compiler and all development libraries needed to compile a Lightning Network node.
$ yum -y install epel-release
Once EPEL is installed (which adds additional repositories), you can install all needed dependencies.
$ yum install -y autoconf automake boost-devel gcc-c++ git libdb4-cxx libdb4-cxx-devel libevent-devel libtool openssl-devel wget libsodium-devel gmp-devel sqlite-devel python34 asciidoc clang python2-devel pythong34-devel python34-pip
Next, compile the Lightning Network node.
Compile a Lightning Network node from source#
With all dependencies in place, it’s time to compile a Lightning Network node. I’ll start by creating a custom user that will run the daemon.
$ useradd lightning $ su - lightning
Now, while running as the new lightning user, clone & compile the project.
$ git clone https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightning.git $ cd lightning $ git checkout v0.6.3 $ ./configure $ make -j $(nproc)
The above downloads and builds version 0.6.3 of the Lightning Network daemon, for a full list of available releases check out their github release page .
Once compiled, you’ll find the lightning daemon in lightning/lightningd.
$ lightningd/lightningd --version v0.6.3