How to install Gekko on CentOS / Fedora / Red Hat

Gekko is an opensource, Node.js application for Bitcoin trading. The application is available on Github.

As such you'll need to install git to download the application from Github and nodejs to run Gekko.

1. Install latest nodejs package from NodeSource repository.

   Follow the Install latest version of Node.js for Centos / Red Hat from NodeSource repository method in the below article:

   • How to install Node.js on CentOS / Red Hat / Fedora
2. Install git client.

   $ sudo yum install --assumeyes git

3. Go to your preferred installation directory and clone Gekko from it's Github repository.

   $ git clone git://github.com/askmike/gekko.git -b stable
   Cloning into 'gekko'...
   remote: Enumerating objects: 14692, done.
   remote: Total 14692 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 14692
   Receiving objects: 100% (14692/14692), 5.11 MiB | 1.51 MiB/s, done.
   Resolving deltas: 100% (9652/9652), done.

4. Go to the cloned repository.

   $ cd gekko/

5. Install required Node.js packages.

   $ npm install --only=production
   
   > sqlite3@4.0.2 install /home/user/gekko/node_modules/sqlite3
   > node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build
   
   node-pre-gyp WARN Using request for node-pre-gyp https download
   [sqlite3] Success: "/home/user/gekko/node_modules/sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v64-linux-x64/node_sqlite3.node" is installed via remote
   added 213 packages from 175 contributors and audited 520 packages in 16.725s
   found 1 low severity vulnerability
     run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details

6. Start Gekko.

   $ node gekko --ui
   
       ______   ________  __    __  __    __   ______
      /      \ /        |/  |  /  |/  |  /  | /      \
     /$$$$$$  |$$$$$$$$/ $$ | /$$/ $$ | /$$/ /$$$$$$  |
     $$ | _$$/ $$ |__    $$ |/$$/  $$ |/$$/  $$ |  $$ |
     $$ |/    |$$    |   $$  $$<   $$  $$<   $$ |  $$ |
     $$ |$$$$ |$$$$$/    $$$$$  \  $$$$$  \  $$ |  $$ |
     $$ \__$$ |$$ |_____ $$ |$$  \ $$ |$$  \ $$ \__$$ |
     $$    $$/ $$       |$$ | $$  |$$ | $$  |$$    $$/
      $$$$$$/  $$$$$$$$/ $$/   $$/ $$/   $$/  $$$$$$/
   
   	Gekko v0.6.6
   	I'm gonna make you rich, Bud Fox.
   
   
   Serving Gekko UI on http://localhost:3000/

   If you receive version error such as the following, make sure to install the latest Node.js from PPA.

    ERROR: Your local version of Node.js is too old. You have v8.10.0 and you need atleast >=8.11.2

7. Open your web browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:3000/// to access the web interface.