how to setup environment for avalanche's test network

Question

I'm new to avalanche and have never used go before. I have been trying to deploy an Avalanche local test network according to the documentation in my ubuntu20.04 but it's not very clear what should exactly be done about the GOPATH. It is mentioned:

avalanche-network-runner will be installed into $GOPATH/bin, please make sure that $GOPATH/bin is in your $PATH, otherwise, you may not be able to run commands below.

but its not specified what to set the PATH or GOPATH to. also the documentation mentions:

# replace execPath with the path to AvalancheGo on your machine
# e.g., ${HOME}/go/src/github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/build/avalanchego
AVALANCHEGO_EXEC_PATH="${HOME}/go/src/github.com/ava-labs/avalanchego/build/avalanchego"

however the avalanchego project was never said to be cloned.

can someone please provide the specific steps needed to get the avalanche local test network up and working? thanks in advance for your help

Are you encountering any error or what exactly is the issue ? you can learn more about GOPATH with `go help gopath` — medasx, Jul 12 '22 at 13:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 02 '23 at 10:19

I solved it as follows:

From here, download the binary file and give your file path for AVALANCHEGO_EXEC_PATH. export AVALANCHEGO_EXEC_PATH="PATH_TO_AVALANCHEGO_BINARY"

Steps:

Install the Avalanche CLI, Avalanche Network Node Runner
Download the Avalanche Bin File
- Export its path with AVALANCHEGO_EXEC_PATH
  
  export AVALANCHEGO_EXEC_PATH="PATH_TO_AVALANCHEGO_BINARY"
Then, follow instruction here.

how to setup environment for avalanche's test network

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