Rippled Installation

Question

I am willing to install rippled on my Linux 3.13.0. following : Installation on Ubuntu with alien

https://ripple.com/build/rippled-setup/#installation-on-centosred-hat-with-yum

But I am stuck at this line :

sudo systemctl enable rippled.service

Furthermore, I followed all the anteriors steps but it seems my terminal doesn't recognized the service

->rippled : unrecognized service ->rippled.service : unrecognized service

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I had the same problem just a few days ago. I found an answer by posting this problem in the xrpchat forum. This is the thread: http://www.xrpchat.com/topic/1761-cant-run-rippled-as-service/

To sum it up you should do the following steps :

1. Check the installation completed sucessfully, by navigating in the rippled installation directory. In order to do so run these commands. cd /opt/ripple/bin and then ls. Now see if there is the "rippled" executable.
2. Next try to run the rippled service by running sudo systemctl start rippled.service
3. Check the latest output of the rippled service by running sudo systemctl status rippled.service. If it runs - congratulations you're done. If it doesnt there might be a variety of problems. In this particular case: If the output contains something like "permission denied", do step 4.
4. Check all directories mentioned in the output you got from the previous step. To do so navigate to the parent directory of the desired path with cd and there run ls -la. The owner of all these directories must be a user called "rippled"
5. If the owner is root run sudo chown -R rippled:rippled /path/to/dir
6. Try to run the service again as explained in step 2

Beside the mentioned forum other helpful links might be the official ripple forum:https://forum.ripple.com/

And the official installation instructions: https://ripple.com/build/rippled-setup/#installation-on-ubuntu-with-alien