The following guide assumes that you have a fresh installation of a Linux operating system with root access, or an account with sudo permissions.

This guide's steps have been validated on the following Linux server distributions:

• Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
• Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
• Debian 9 64-bit

DO NOT INSTALL AND RUN A SECURE/SUPER NODE UNDER THE ROOT USER. The guide details how to add a non-root user, under which the necessary processes will run.