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description: Initial setup prior to installing binary
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# Initial System Setup

**Update System and Install Build Tools**

```
sudo apt sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install git curl build-essential make jq gcc snapd chrony lz4 tmux unzip bc -y

```

**Install Go**

_**Go 1.19+ is required.**_ We will use Go `v1.19.3` as example here. . The code below also cleanly removes any previous Go installation.

```
sudo rm -rvf /usr/local/go/
wget https://golang.org/dl/go1.19.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.19.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
rm go1.19.3.linux-amd64.tar.gz
```

**Configure Go**

Unless you want to configure in a non-standard way, then set these in the `~/.profile` file.

```
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export GO111MODULE=on
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin
```

**Install Cosmovisor**

We will use Cosmovisor `v1.0.0` as example here.

```
go install github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/cosmovisor/cmd/cosmovisor@v1.0.0
```
