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Step By Step Guide To Install hyperledger fabric in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Hyperledeger is a collaborative effort from different industry leaders to frame an open source, Cross-Industry Blockchain aided technologies. The project is led by Linux Foundation and industry leaders like IBM, Intel, Samsung and much more already became part of it. The movement basically aims to develop the distributed ledgers that can support enterprise-level business transactions. The project has developed a number of business Blockchain frameworks like Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Saw toot. Actually, these frameworks provide the development environment for business Blockchain applications. You can read more about the basics of Hyperledger from our previous blogs.
You can also learn the basic terminologies and components of hyperledger from here.

Installation of Hyperledger fabric on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
The Installation has the following prerequisites. Make sure that your system has following features before installation.
- Latest version of cURL
- Latest version of Docker & Docker compose (docker v1.12.x or higher)
- Latest version of Go-Lang (Go — Programming Language)
- Python v2.7
- Node JS v6.x (Currently v7.x not supported)

1. Installation of cURL

$ sudo apt install curl

2. Install latest version of Docker and Docker compose
— install docker

$ sudo apt install docker.io

- install docker compose

$ sudo apt install docker-compose

- create a user group

$ sudo usermod -a -G docker $USER

You can check the version of docker and docker compose version by

$ docker --version
             $ docker-compose --version

- To check the working of you ‘Docker’ execute the following code.

$ docker run hello-world

If the ‘docker’ is installed successfully then the result will be
Status: Downloaded newer image for hello-world: latest
Hello from Docker!
NOTE: If the ‘docker’ displays an error message ‘Cannot connect to the Docker daemon’. Please restart your system and run again…Continue reading on Step By Step Guide To Install hyperledger fabric in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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