How to connect cardano-node 1.35.6 to Pre-prod or Preview testnet using cardano-cli

The cardano-node prebuilt binary for the Linux distro can be accessed via the cardano-node release page and downloaded from hydra here

 

Download cardano-node 1.35.6 prebuilt binary

From any ubuntu or Linux distro, create a new dir and cd into then: 

wget https://s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/update-cardano-mainnet.iohk.io/cardano-node-releases/cardano-node-1.35.6-linux.tar.gz

Extract the zip

tar -xzf cardano-node-1.35.6-linux.tar.gz

Next, make the files executable

chmod +x *

 

Download the configuration files for the respective environments

Note: all configuration files for each of the environments can be found here.

Download the pre-prod configuration files from Cardano world here.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/input-output-hk/cardano-world/master/docs/environments/preprod/alonzo-genesis.json
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/input-output-hk/cardano-world/master/docs/environments/preprod/byron-genesis.json
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/input-output-hk/cardano-world/master/docs/environments/preprod/config.json
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/input-output-hk/cardano-world/master/docs/environments/preprod/shelley-genesis.json
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/input-output-hk/cardano-world/master/docs/environments/preprod/topology.json

Run the following command using the cardano-node cli to launch the node

./cardano-node run --config ~/{dir}/config.json --database-path ~/{dir}/db --socket-path ~/{dir}/node.socket --topology ~/{dir}/topology.json

Run the following command to export the node.socket

export CARDANO_NODE_SOCKET_PATH=~/{dir}/node.socket

Run cardano-cli to query the tip of the chain

./cardano-cli-node query tip --testnet-magic 1