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I'm having issues with nix-shell
It may help to use IOHK's binary caches.
You can set these up globally for your system by adding/creating these lines in /etc/nix/nix.conf:
substituters = https://hydra.iohk.io https://iohk....
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nix-shell did not create the server/client directories
This is documentation drift. Those two applications have moved to the plutus-apps repository. If you do the same exact steps cloning plutus-apps instead of plutus repository, it will work.
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Plutus Pioneer Program - Lecture #1- Cabal Build error
I had a similar issue and solved it by running nix-shell in the plutus library, then navigating to the plutus-pioneer/code/week01 and running cabal update. I hope this helps!
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Need help installing pioneer-based code on intel Mac (Big Sur)
In step 7, there should be a 2nd line instructing you clone the plutus-apps. Change plutus.git to plutus-apps.git in step 7 to clone it, then run the playground nix-build from the top of that second ...
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Nix is building ghc during on nix build command (How to fix the cache?)
It may be the case that you edited your nix.conf file after you launched nix-daemon.
You would need to kill and start the daemon again to pick up the updated nix.conf:
$ sudo pkill nix-daemon
and ...
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What is the GC_DONT_GC=1 variable for when running the Plutus Playground locally?
GC_DONT_GC=1 disables the boehm garbage collector in nix. There are edge cases that our nix expressions can hit, which cause nix to segfault. Disabling the garbage collector in nix "fixes" ...
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nix-shell did not create the server/client directories
It looks like those folders are not in the git repo. I am running into same problem.
I am following instructions for MacOS from here:
https://docs.plutus-community.com/docs/setup/MacOS.html
And didn't ...
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nix installation issue on Fedora 35
Fixed. I had the Cardano node previously installed which involves compiling and installing libsodium. What I did was go into the libsodium folder and sudo make libsodium uninstall Then re-ran nix ...
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Disk Space of Cardano node & Cardano DB-sync
The database for db-sync at chain tip is over 100GB.
Syncing on epoch 254. So far in total they have taken 88 GB of disk space.
Yep and by the time you get to epoch 323 (current tip) the database ...
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Disk Space of Cardano node & Cardano DB-sync
As an FYI, the mainnet node DB/chain itself is currently using 41GB of disk on Linux.
$du -h db
38G db/immutable
2.9G db/ledger
163M db/volatile
41G db
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Error with cabal build using plutus-starter-devcontainer on macOS Big Sur
This issue was resolved by updating VSCode to August 2021 release (v1.60.0) and increasing Docker Memory to 6GB.
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How to set plutus-apps NixOS options on Mac
If you're using an M1 Mac follow these instructions https://github.com/renzwo/cardano-plutus-apps-install-m1/blob/main/README.md
You should probably uninstall Nix first though (scroll to the bottom of ...
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How long Cardano node takes to be installed?
You're missing the binary cache setup referenced here most likely:
https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/blob/master/doc/getting-started/building-the-node-using-nix.md#iohk-binary-cache
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I'm having issues with nix-shell
There are multiple different types of nix.conf files in the $PATH, even when I made one globally. So What I initial did was replace all of them with the IOHK's binary caches, and from there it worked.
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Configuring Nix Cardano Node for pre-production / preview
You can go to Cardano Testnet - Getting Started. It will explain how to set up your node for Preview and Pre-Production Testnet, complete with the configuration files.
There are also different value ...
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Error when executing nix-shell in plutus-apps
There are two ways of fixing this issue:
Temporary
Add --experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' when calling the nix-shell command.
Permanent
Edit either ~/.config/nix/nix.conf or /etc/nix/nix....
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plutus-apps nix-shell on Mac M2 segmentation fault
After days of spelunking the internet, I found a comment in IOG ask-nix-os suggesting to use
GC_DONT_GC=1 nix-shell
and that solved the problem.
As of today, if you follow all the steps in my issue ...
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Why does building cardano-node require unreasonable amounts of disk space?
When using Nix, you need to download and install a huge amount of Nix related stuff that is not required if you are not using Nix.
I am sure you have heard the expression "the only reason I have ...
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How Do you generate the Cabal and Nix files for a new project?
Once inside the nix-shell, it assumes that the correct dependencies have already been loaded especially if you have built it on top of the newly cloned plutus-apps repo. The nix files necessary are ...
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How long Cardano node takes to be installed?
if you want to install Cardano Node,
building the node :
this commands will actually build/compile the node and will take around 40-45 minutes.
cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/input-output-hk/...
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Error starting /plutus-apps client and connecting to localhost macOS
When starting the client server on macOS use GC_DONT_GC=1 npm run start.
That is, include GC_DONT_GC=1 in front of the command npm run start.
Then, open a browser tab to http://localhost:8009/ and, ...
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macOS Monterey i7, what is the best `nix.conf` file to use?
macOS nix setup on x86_64 (Intel, AMD) and aarch64 (Apple Silicon) should be identical. Running the installer from the official website, should get you a proper install.
You do want to add the iohk ...
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Is nix on an Intel Mac too problematic?
No, it is not. In fact I'm running the plutus-playground-server and plutus-playground-client on an x86_64-darwin machine with nix right now.
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How to set plutus-apps NixOS options on Mac
I followed steps 4-6 in https://docs.plutus-community.com/docs/setup/MacOS.html and those worked for me (I have an Intel Mac - Big Sur). You could try them and see if they work for you. Those steps ...
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Haskell Language Server - linker error: symbol sqlite3_fts3_may_be_corrupt
I've found out that the issue comes from the playground stuff. (don't ask me why...)
Commenting the lines [360 .. 365], 24 and 28, the problem goes away.
Note that doing this, the old friend GHC Core ...
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Installing on WLS2 - error: experimental Nix feature 'nix-command' is disabled
Previously there was another plutus repository, now they made an update with another name plutus-apps, the execution of the command must be updated so that it points to that reference of the plutus-...
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What is minimum RAM for running plutus-playground-server on Ubuntu VirtualBox?
As all answers, it depends on your setup. Currently I run the plutus-playground-server setup on a VM with 8gb of ram available (but the playground only uses 1gb of that space). The thing to consider ...
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nix installation failure on mac with "curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired"
This is not really Cardano question, but seems your Mac has problem with certificates.
Quick fix will be just to add -k, like this:
sh <(curl -k -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --darwin-use-...
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Sandbox error when running nix build on macOS
I found this /etc/nix/nix.conf to work for my macOS i7 Monterey (v12.1).
It was recommended to turn the sandbox FALSE because 'not recommended' per Ref #1 below.
build-users-group = nixbld
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nix-build alonzo mainnet
You're doing the right thing.
"syncProgress" refers to the percentage of the chain you've synced. Once you get to around 70% it will say "Shelley" and only the most recent epoch ...
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