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Quick Install - Dependencies

We will reach the point in the installation where nodectl is ready to download the dependency packages needed to run our node's Tessellation protocol; as well as, other utilities that may or may not already exist on your system.

nodectl will do this for us automatically, so no action is required.

nodectl installing [ mainnet ]
Dependencies can take a few minutes.
Installing dependency [haveged] ............... complete
openjdk-11-jdk may take a few minutes to install
Installing dependency [openjdk-11-jdk] ........ complete
Installing dependency [vim] ................... complete
Installing dependency [curl] .................. complete
Installing dependency [wget] .................. complete
Installing dependency [tree] .................. installing ..

Description Chart

Description of the files being downloaded here.

ref: google

Dependency NameDescription
havegedUtility that generates an unpredictable stream of random numbers harvested from the indirect effects of hardware events on hidden processor state (caches, branch predictors, memory translation tables, etc) using the HAVEGE (HArdware Volatile Entropy Gathering and Expansion) algorithm.
openjdk-11-jdkJava 11 default development kit
vimCommand line interface text editor for Unix (Linux).
curl"Client url": A command line tool that enables data exchange between a device and a server through a terminal.
wget"World Wide Web Get": An open-source utility that allows you to retrieve content from web servers via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols. .
treeThe tree command in Linux is used to display the directory structure in a tree-like format.

Next nodectl will install the Tessellation binary packages.