Vanilla Dojo, it's really this easy.

‌This post is gonna be a little walk through of a Vanilla Samourai Dojo install on x86. First things first, lets take a look at the requirements to install Dojo, I've included a sceenshot below from the Samourai Docs, pretty straight forward/self explanatory.

x86-64 means that it reqires a 64 bit x86 processor, in dumber terms that equals pretty much run of the mill desktop computers from the past 10 years. We want to use a ssd due to the faster read and write times, since the Dojo is going to be constantly updating as the blockchain grows, and we need a minimum of 600GB to store the blockchain, the indexer database, and other assorted files that are going to be installed with dojo. I would definitely agree with the doc, and reccomend a 1tb ssd. the 2gb ram is fairly easy to meet with most desktop computers, even older ones. Something like this Dell Optiplex 7040 plus an added 1tb ssd would be perfect, and you could get both for around 300 total.

Once you aquire or repurpose a computer, its time to flash it with ununtu server. Download the iso here, then flash it to a usb drive using Balena Etcher. I'm not going to cover that in depth as its pretty simple and there are tons of guides out there on how to do it. This guide covers everything pretty well and should help you get your server flashed and ready to go pretty quickly.

Plug in an ethernet cable to the server and wait a few seconds. Its time to find your servers lan ip-address. You can do this by plugging in a moniter and a keyboard to the server and running

sudo apt install net-tools

and then

ifconfig

or you can just log into your router and find the lan ip address there.

Now its time to get ready to ssh into your server, if you're on linux no extra steps are required, as openssh comes installed on linux.

If you're a mac user, you're going to need to install homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

and then use homebrew to install openssh

brew install openssh

If you're a windows user, you'll need to use putty, which in all honsty I have no experience with. Hopefully this guide helps you out.

Alright, so now we have aquired our server hardware, installed ubuntu server, connected it to the internet via ethernet cable, found our servers lan ip address, and prepared to ssh in.

Run

ssh user@192.168.xxx.xxx

(user is your user, replace xxx.xxx with the lan ip address you found earlier)

It will inform you that the authenticity of the host can't be established and ask if you want to trust it, go ahead and type yes and enter. Then it will ask you for the password to the server. This is the computers password you set when installing ubuntu. Now, as a good practice run:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

just to ensure everything is up to date. We are ready to start on the dojo installation.

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Installing the Dojo

Head over to the Samourai Docs dojo first install. I'm gonna loosely step by step it with some screenshots of terminal as we go. Head to the first time install guide and take it step by step. I'm plagaraising for reference so you can follow along step by step and verify with the official guide:)

Prepare the host system:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common unzip

Install docker:

we don't need to do the first step in this docker install as we are working with a fresh install of ubuntu server.

curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88

Verify that you now have the key with the following fingerprint before continuing
9DC8 5822 9FC7 DD38 854A E2D8 8D81 803C 0EBF CD88

sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

type y and hit enter

sudo docker --version

Verify that the docker installation worked with this command.

Install Docker Compose:

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/1.25.3/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

make docker compose an executable command

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Verify the installation of docker compose was successful

sudo docker-compose --version

Add your user to the docker group and restart the system:

Even though the first time install guide says to make another user, we can skip this because our computer is going to be dedicated to running dojo

to add your user to the docker group

sudo usermod -aG docker <yourserverusername>

Restart the server, this will end the ssh connection and you will have to ssh in again.

sudo shutdown -r now

SSH back in and then test the docker installation with:

docker run hello-world

Configure Docker data storage directory:

Skip this step in the first install guide, we aren't using an external drive, we are using the same ssd that we installed ubuntu server on.

Download MyDojo

Create a directory to store your dojo.

mkdir ~/dojo-app

Download the latest version of Dojo

wget https://code.samourai.io/dojo/samourai-dojo/-/archive/master/samourai-dojo-master.zip

Unzip

unzip samourai-dojo-master.zip -d .

Copy into your dojo-app directory

cp -a samourai-dojo-master/. dojo-app/

Get rid of the source archive now that we have unzipped it and placed it in our dojo-app directory

rm -rf samourai-dojo-master

rm samourai-dojo-master.zip

Configure the Dojo

Change directory into the my-dojo configuration folder

cd ~/dojo-app/docker/my-dojo/conf

list the directories with ls (a handy command in general lol)

Now we are going to go through each configuratin file, and edit some values in preparation for the installation. I like to save the edited values into secure notes using bitwarden password manager.

After editing each configuration file save and exit the file with CTRL+X, Y and ENTER.

Edit the bitcoind conf

nano docker-bitcoind.conf.tpl

change the bitcoin_rpc_user and bitcoin_rpc_password to your desired value. I like to save them in my password manager. You can also change the bitcoin_db_cache to a higher value if youve got more ram. If you're doing this on the optiplex with 16gb ram go ahead and use 2048 for this value.

Edit the database conf

nano docker-mysql.conf.tpl

Chance the mysql_root_password, the mysql_user and the mysql_password to custom values, save these values in a password manager.

Edit the nodejs conf

nano docker-node.conf.tpl

Change node_api_key, node_admin_key, node_jwt_secret, node_active_indexer to custom values and save them into your password manager.

Edit the indexer conf

We are going to use fulcrum, you can find instructions for this in the advanced section under local fulcrum server.

nano docker-indexer.conf.tpl

• INDEXER_INSTALL must be set to on
• NODE_ACTIVE_INDEXER must be set to local_indexer

# Set the value of INDEXER_INSTALL to "on"
# Set the value of INDEXER_TYPE to "fulcrum"
# Set the value of INDEXER_BATCH_SUPPORT to "active"
# Save and exit nano

Edit the explorer conf

nano docker-explorer.conf.tpl

Set explorer_install to on, and cheache the explorer_key to a custom value. Save the value into your password manager.

Edit the whirlpool conf

nano docker-whirlpool.conf.tpl

Set whirlpool_install to on

That wraps everthing up, its time to install the dojo.

Install Dojo

Change directory into the my-dojo directory

cd ~/dojo-app/docker/my-dojo

now all you gotta do is run

./dojo.sh install

It'll ask if you want to install, type y, hit enter, and away it goes, docker will run the required scripts and complete the install. Read about the automatic install.

Next Steps

Once the install completes, it will begin the IBD, import the block headers into the tracker, and index addrsses with fulcrum.

To get your specific onion links run

./dojo.sh onion

It will have the onion address to your Dojo Maintenance Tool, your Block Explorer, your fulcrum hidden service, and your whirlpool onion link (I accidentally forgot the whirlpool conf before taking this screenshot and was to lazy to go back lol.)

Connect sparrow to fulcrum, connect whirlpool to the gui, connect your samourai wallet to your dojo by scanning your dojo pairing qr code

Learn more about using dojo here.

One last thing, you might have to rescan your dojo if you're connecting a previously used samourai wallet.

Happy Dojo operating.