🪐 Solana

Installation

For me, the curl commands and the creation of the temporary directory worked fine for the install on v1.15.2.

<aside> 💡 Maybe we can download a PowerShell script and pipe that into a “run” command so we can just do these two steps in one?

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After installing I did a few basic operations from the CLI:

• ✅ solana-keygen new
• ✅ solana balance
• ✅ solana config set -ud
• ✅ solana airdrop 2

Once I finished these operations, I tried the test validator.

Test Validator

Immediately I got the following error trying to run solana-test-validator at my user root in a command terminal (non-admin):

logrotate is not supported on this platform
Ledger location: test-ledger
Log: test-ledger/validator.log
Error: Failed to start validator. Failed to create ledger at test-ledger: blockstore error

Inspecting the logs:

tar stderr: tar: Can't launch external program: bzip2

I found this question on Stack Overflow, which led me to try installing Bzip2 on Windows.