We will be installing Rust, Solana and Anchor Either watch this video or follow the commands listed below.
It is necessary for me to tell you that regardless of me doing my best to cover all edge cases and providing you all the solutions during this installation process, setting up dev envioments is frustrating. Have fun :)
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
check if you have installed everything correctly by typing this in the terminal
rustc -V or rustc --version
and also check for cargo, which is the package manager for rust
cargo -V or cargo --version
2nd thing we are going to install is Solana
sh -c "$(curl -sSfL https://release.solana.com/v1.10.32/install)"
Note: you might be promted to add solana to your $PATH on your screen after this step, do so by following the steps on your screen, I'll leave the command here too!
export PATH="/home/YOUR_SYSTEM_NAME/.local/share/solana/install/active_release/bin:$PATH"
Check if it was succesful by typing $PATH in your terminal
Check the version of solana installed by typing Solana --version
You can check your Solana wallet address by typing Solana address
If you face an error after doing so, create a new wallet by typing
solana-keygen new
This is the most pain in the ass thing ever. now that I have stated that, let's get started
cargo install --git https://github.com/project-serum/anchor avm --locked --force
After that's done, install the latest version of 'AVM' or the Anchor Version Manager:
avm install latest
and then,
avm use latest
Finally, check the latest version of Anchor by typing
anchor --version
All of this might seem pretty straightforward, your life might seem happy and simple now. Huh, naive lil kid
Just to play around you can create a new Anchor project by typing
mkdir AnchorTest
cd AnchorTest
anchor init
now go explore all the files created by anchor in the template project. It usually contains an app folder for your client-side application. Migrations folder for deploy scripts, tests folder for obv, tests and the programs folder contains the lib.rs, the smart contract!