how to build hyperledger fabric on Ubuntu

Here is the process to setup environment on ubuntu 16.04 to build Hyperledger fabric:

Highlight of the process

• Install tools and dependencies such as git, pip, docker-composer, dev libraries etc.
• Go - 1.7 or later (for releases before v1.0, 1.6 or later)
• Docker - 1.12 or later
• Docker Compose - 1.8.1 or later
• Setup environment and extract hyperledger fabric code
• Run the build

1.Install some dependencies first:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install python-dev python-pip libtool libltdl-dev
sudo pip install --upgrade pip
sudo pip install behave nose docker-compose protobuf couchdb==1.0

2.Install golang 1.7 or later from https://golang.org/doc/install by first download a version matching your environment, then run the command below:

tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.8.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Do not forget adding the path to your PATH env.

PATH="/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH"

3.Install docker engine:

sudo apt-get install docker.io

4.Create a working directory and setup GOPATH:

mkdir -p ~/gopath/src/github.com/hyperledger
export GOPATH=~/gopath

5.Extract the source code to direct created in step 4:

git clone http://gerrit.hyperledger.org/r/fabric 

6.Build fabric binaries:

cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/hyperledger

make dist-clean all

or make individual target like this:

make peer