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TwilightDuck May 4, 2023
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Merge branch 'staging' into patch-1
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Expand Up @@ -515,6 +515,16 @@ cp -p "$(./scripts/bin-path.sh cardano-node)" $HOME/.local/bin/
cp -p "$(./scripts/bin-path.sh cardano-cli)" $HOME/.local/bin/
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In order to run the cardano-node as a service using systemd you need to run the following command:
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Since there are heaps of Linux flavours around:

Simply running ldconfig may not be enough (neither absence of it will guarantee the error, if LD_LIBRARY_PATH already points to local lib folder).

If using ldconfig, it would be an essential step to ensure /usr/local/lib - or the path where you install the lib to - is part of /etc/ld.so.config (or mentioned in a file in /etc/ld.so.conf.d).


```bash
ldconfig
```
If this is not done, you might run into the following error:
```bash
error while loading shared libraries: libsecp256k1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
```

We have to add this line below our shell profile so that the shell/terminal can recognize that `cardano-node` and `cardano-cli` are global commands. (`$HOME/.zshrc` or `$HOME/.bashrc` ***depending on the shell application you use***)

```bash
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