After truffle init I don't see MetaCoin.sol and other files expected to be there?

Question

I have Truffle installed on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS box. Here are my Truffle and Solidity version numbers:

Truffle v4.0.6 (core: 4.0.6)
Solidity v0.4.19 (solc-js)

I am following along the Blockgeeks "How To Learn Solidity" tutorial:

https://blockgeeks.com/guides/solidity/

After running Truffle init, that guide and other tutorials I have seen on the Web say I should have the following files in the directories created by the Truffle init command:

• contracts\ConvertLib.sol
• contracts\MetaCoin.sol

• contracts\Migrations.sol

• migrations\1_initial_migration.js

• migrations\2_initial_migration.js

I only have the files marked in bold. The other files are missing. Does anyone know how I get the other files?

Answer 1

In truffle v4, truffle init is deprecated in favor of truffle unbox.

truffle unbox just creates the contracts/ and migrations/. directories and a blank truffle.js.

Inorder to unbox Metacoin use the following command. truffle unbox MetaCoin.

You can refer other boilerplates from the following link. http://truffleframework.com/boxes/

Answer 2

From Truffle 4.0.0, "init" only creates a bare environment. Quoting document here:

Speaking of boxes, truffle init now creates a bare Truffle project. If you'd like a specific example, try a box instead!

As cmr commented, Metacoin can be unboxed, see main site.

truffle unbox metacoin