# Graph-node setup help

**URL:** <https://forum.thegraph.com/t/graph-node-setup-help/3615>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [October 2, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/graph-node-setup-help/3615 "2022-10-02T16:34:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Ty-Sir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Ty-Sir](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/Ty-Sir)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/graph-node-setup-help/3615/1 "2022-10-02T16:34:39Z")

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Seeing as hosted-service will be finished in a few months I am trying to run a graph-node for Avalanche so the project I am working on can still use indexed data.

I am trying to run a local graph-node and having issues with the setup. I have docker@20.10.17, docker-compose@1.29.2, and jq@1.6 installed. I cloned the `graphprotocol/graph-node` repo and in the `docker` folder tried to run the command `./setup.sh`

Doing so returns the error below. I am unfamiliar with using docker and any help would be appreciated thank you in advance!

```auto
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 670, in urlopen
  File "urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 392, in _make_request
  File "http/client.py", line 1255, in request
  File "http/client.py", line 1301, in _send_request
  File "http/client.py", line 1250, in endheaders
  File "http/client.py", line 1010, in _send_output
  File "http/client.py", line 950, in send
  File "docker/transport/unixconn.py", line 43, in connect
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 61] Connection refused

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "requests/adapters.py", line 439, in send
  File "urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 726, in urlopen
  File "urllib3/util/retry.py", line 410, in increment
  File "urllib3/packages/six.py", line 734, in reraise
  File "urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 670, in urlopen
  File "urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 392, in _make_request
  File "http/client.py", line 1255, in request
  File "http/client.py", line 1301, in _send_request
  File "http/client.py", line 1250, in endheaders
  File "http/client.py", line 1010, in _send_output
  File "http/client.py", line 950, in send
  File "docker/transport/unixconn.py", line 43, in connect
urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionRefusedError(61, 'Connection refused'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "docker/api/client.py", line 214, in _retrieve_server_version
  File "docker/api/daemon.py", line 181, in version
  File "docker/utils/decorators.py", line 46, in inner
  File "docker/api/client.py", line 237, in _get
  File "requests/sessions.py", line 543, in get
  File "requests/sessions.py", line 530, in request
  File "requests/sessions.py", line 643, in send
  File "requests/adapters.py", line 498, in send
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionRefusedError(61, 'Connection refused'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "docker-compose", line 3, in <module>
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 81, in main
  File "compose/cli/main.py", line 200, in perform_command
  File "compose/cli/command.py", line 60, in project_from_options
  File "compose/cli/command.py", line 152, in get_project
  File "compose/cli/docker_client.py", line 41, in get_client
  File "compose/cli/docker_client.py", line 170, in docker_client
  File "docker/api/client.py", line 197, in __init__
  File "docker/api/client.py", line 221, in _retrieve_server_version
docker.errors.DockerException: Error while fetching server API version: ('Connection aborted.', ConnectionRefusedError(61, 'Connection refused'))
[38855] Failed to execute script docker-compose

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**Author:** ![vdaubry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ba8739/32.png) [@vdaubry](https://forum.thegraph.com/u/vdaubry)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2023, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.thegraph.com/t/graph-node-setup-help/3615/2 "2023-05-20T16:51:36Z")

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Docker is simply not running 🙂  
Start Docker, run “docker-compose up” and it will solve this error.