Volume Network

Proof-of-Capacity (PoC) consensus algorithm based blockchain.

Software Installation

Linux (Debian, Ubuntu)

• fetch the newest release ZIP file

If running for the first time,

• install Java
• install MariaDB
• run volume.sh help
• probably you want to do volume.sh import mariadb

if upgrading your wallet config from 1.3.6cg

volume.sh upgrade

will take the old nxt-default.properties/nxt.properties files and create vlm-default.properties.converted/vlm.properties.converted files in the conf directory. This should give you a headstart with the new option naming system.

Windows

MariaDb

In the conf directory, copy vlm-default.properties into a new file named vlm.properties.

Download and install MariaDB https://mariadb.com/downloads/mariadb-tx

The MariaDb installation will ask to setup a password for the root user. Add this password to the vlm.properties file created above in the following section:

DB.Url=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/vlm_master
DB.Username=root
DB.Password=YOUR_PASSWORD

The MariaDB installation will also install HeidiSQL, a gui tool to administer MariaDb. Use it to connect to the newly created mariaDb server and create a new DB called vlm_master.

Configure and Initialize MariaDB

The Debian and Ubuntu packages provide an automatic configuration of your local mariadb server. If you can't use the packages, you have to initialize your database with these statements:

echo "CREATE DATABASE vlm_master; 
      CREATE USER 'vlm_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
      GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON vlm_master.* TO 'vlm_user'@'localhost';" | mysql -uroot
mysql -uroot vlm_master < init-mysql.sql