How to Run a Sia Node on Ubuntu

Terminal instructions are in inline code

First you will want to go here
https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/releases

You will find as of right now the latest release is 1.2.2 you can download the linux version with the link below
Sia-v1.2.2-linux-amd64

The easiest way is to right click on the link to the zip and copy it to your clipboard.
In your terminal make a new directory called sia in your home directory.
mkdir ~/sia
Now download the zip into your directory.
wget https://github.com/NebulousLabs/Sia/releases/download/v1.2.2/Sia-v1.2.2-linux-amd64.zip
Unzip.
unzip Sia-v1.2.2-linux-amd64.zip

Delete the zip.
rm Sia-v.1.2.2-linux-amd64.zip

Move all the files from the newly created folder into the directory.
mv Sia-v1.2.2-linux-amd64/* ./

Delete the empty folder.
rm -R Sia-v1.2.2-linux-amd64

Now we have all of our files in the nice clean directory of ~/sia/ to work with. Let's get started. To interact with the Sia daemon we will be using the ./siad command. Let's try it now.
./siad -h

The -h option will help you navigate your way through using the Sia daemon and client. Next let's list the modules that the Sia daemon can be started with.
./siad modules

You don't necessarily need all of the modules listed. You will probably want to play with everything but the Miner and Explorer modules. Let's start the daemon.
./siad -M gctwrh &

Now that your daemon is running in the background you can interact with the Sia client.
./siac -h

So you're not synced :(

That's going to take a couple days... In the mean time you can initialize a wallet and get it funded by using poloniex.com or your favorite exchange.

Initialize a wallet. Don't lose these passwords.
./siac wallet init

Unlock your wallet.
./siac wallet unlock

Get your wallets address in order to send funds to it.
./siac wallet address

I will be covering more later on hosting and also Nextcloud and Sia.

Thanks.