Plutus Pioneers Week 01 - How to open EnglishAuction shell?

Question

I was wondering how to get the EnglishAuction shell open so I can run these commands from the first lecture?

Answer 1

Basically you should follow instructions for Excercise Week 01 in order to: setup the plutus repo, nix, cache, etc, as Mitchell said.

• Clone the The Plutus repository, check out the correct commit as specified in cabal.project.
• Install NixOS cross-referencing the following resources.
• Set-up IOHK binary caches How to set up the IOHK binary caches. "If you do not do this, you will end up building GHC, which takes several hours. If you find yourself building GHC, STOP and fix the cache."

Then:

• cd /your-repo/plutus
• nix-shell
• cd /your-repo/plutus-pioneer-program/code/week01
• cabal repl

Answer 2

That would be the Cabal REPL. The command is cabal repl.

You need to be sure you are in the correct context for this to work. If you haven't done that, I'd recommend following the Nix setup instructions in the Plutus repo. Once you have nix-shell running you can switch to the Pioneer Program repo and run cabal repl.

Here are some additional community-made instructions that can help fill in the gaps, but I don't think it covers some important stuff like the cache, so I'd start with the official docs.