Install Go 1.14.1

Install Go and set environment variables GOPATH, GOBIN, and PATH following the commands below. The current code base should compile with Go 1.14.1 on a Linux like system (i.e. Ubuntu, Mac OS X). Below are the steps to install Go 1.14.1 and setup the environments on Ubuntu.

screen -S theta
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install gcc
sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt install libstdc++-7-dev
sudo wget https://dl.google.com/go/go1.14.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.14.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz
echo 'export GOROOT=/usr/local/go' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export GOPATH=$HOME/go' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin:$GOPATH/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'export THETA_HOME=$GOPATH/src/github.com/thetatoken/theta' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Checkout and compile the Theta Guardian source code

Clone the release branch of the Theta Ledger repo https://github.com/thetatoken/theta-protocol-ledger into your $GOPATH with the following command. The path should look like this: $GOPATH/src/github.com/thetatoken/theta

git clone --branch release https://github.com/thetatoken/theta-protocol-ledger.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/thetatoken/theta

cd $THETA_HOME
export GO111MODULE=on
make install

Download necessary data for the Guardian Node

cd $THETA_HOME
mkdir -p ../guardian_mainnet/node
curl -k --output ../guardian_mainnet/node/snapshot `curl -k https://mainnet-data.thetatoken.org/snapshot`
curl -k --output ../guardian_mainnet/node/config.yaml `curl -k 'https://mainnet-data.thetatoken.org/config?is_guardian=true'`

Launch the node and stake

Please continue with the instructions here.