How to Update your GALA Nodes

3 min readSep 18, 2022

Did your GALA nodes stop working? Update them in a few minutes

From time to time GALA nodes stop working. Sometimes this is beacuse there is a new software version and you need to update your GALA nodes.

Note: This is a guide for nodes running on a VPS

0. What do you need?

Your VPS IP address and password.

1. Connect to your VPS

a) If you have a Mac computer, open Terminal (search Spotlight) and type ssh root@x.x.x.x where x.x.x.x is your VPS IP address

b) If you are on Windows, open PuTTY — You can download it here, select package files 32/64 bits and install.

Paste the IP address of your VPS. Click Open.

1.2 Log in to your VPS (with PuTTY or Terminal)

Username is root. Paste the VPS password.

Note: the password will not be visible while you type (or paste) it

Note: To paste in PuTTY, click Right Mouse Button then hit Enter

2. Install the node files following the instructions by Gala Team:

Copy and paste this: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Download the newest node software package. Type in:

wget -O install-headless.sh https://static.gala.games/node/install-headless.sh; sudo bash install-headless.sh

and hit Enter.

Follow the prompts and you should be good to go!

3. Confirm this device

Now you will get a link to verify your GALA user:

Copy the link (you only need to select it from https to the end— it will auto-copy to clipboard on PuTTY). Paste the link on a web browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc).

Confirm your Gala Email & Password.

Go back to the console and wait until the node software verifies you!

4. Workload Selector

The GALA node software will auto detect all the node licenses you have in your account and let you select which nodes you want to run on this VPS.

You will see a screen like this. Select all the nodes you want to run. Click Save. Then hit Esc to exit.