Chia Blockchain : How to install Chia on Raspberry pi 4

Pongsakorn Tippayasomdech
2 min readMay 2, 2021

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Warning!!

The Raspberry pi 4 is not suitable for Plotting!!
To plot, I recommend that you should plot on Performance PC this way is better and Faster than plot on Raspberry pi 4

Make sure you running on 64-Bit Os

You must run on Raspberry Pi OS 64-Bit on ARM64.
to check that open the Raspberry pi terminal and type

uname -m

if it shows “aarch64” that mean you running on a 64-Bit system

To install Chia Blockchain

Open the Raspberry pi Terminal ant type

wget download.chia.net/latest/ARM64-Ubuntu-gui
sudo dpkg -i ARM64-Ubuntu-gui
sudo rm ARM64-Ubuntu-gui

Then wait until Finished

How to run Chia Blockchain with Gui

Go to Raspberry pi’s Logo (on the left top) > Accessories > Chia Blockchain

How to run Chia Blockchain with Command line

Open the Raspberry pi Terminal then type one of this to run chia executable

/usr/lib/chia-blockchain/resources/app.asar.unpacked/daemon/chia
/lib/chia-blockchain/resources/app.asar.unpacked/daemon/chia

How to PATH chia

Open the Raspberry pi Terminal then type
sudo nano
~/.bashrc

Then add this in this file
export PATH=”$PATH:/usr/lib/chia-blockchain/resources/app.asar.unpacked/daemon/”

save this file by press ctrl+x, y and hit Enter
Now you can open chia with only type “chia”

For Command line you can learn more at CLI Commands Reference

Thank you for reading my tutorial! I hope this tutorial is helpful for you :D

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Pongsakorn Tippayasomdech
Pongsakorn Tippayasomdech

Written by Pongsakorn Tippayasomdech

Student at 42BANGKOK and Kasetsart University Sriracha Campus.

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