Installing Lit OS cleanly is fairly involved, we have scripted it with the widely-used ansible tool for your convenience.

1. git clone <https://github.com/LIT-Protocol/lit-node-deploy.git> on some developer machine that has the SSH keys you use to access your node
2. Follow the steps in the repo’s README.md and be careful, as the deploy script may point you to take additional manual steps at the end of its output
3. In the vars section of your machine-description.yml paste the following value for the tar_decrypt: key: 4qzybzFL9

While it is possible to run the installation manually, we can only support installations performed using the above process. It will

1. Ensure Debian is up to date
2. Install lit-os and reconfigure networking

Do not ignore failures in this process and reach out to us if any step fails (it is ok if a step succeeds after a retry or ...ignored is printed after the step)

If you’re confident that everything looks okay, run

sudo reboot

Wait up to 15 minutes for your machine to be reachable via ssh again