Building Ethereum

Installation Instructions

Follow the appropriate link below to find installation instructions for your platform.

Installation Instructions for Mac OS X

Installation Instructions for Ubuntu

Installation Instructions for Windows

Note: There are some upstream bugs that may prevent Mist from running correctly within VirtualBox in certain scenarios. See https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12746 and https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-43110

Running in Docker

We keep a Docker image with recent snapshot builds from the develop branch on DockerHub. Run this first:

docker pull ethereum/client-go

To start a node that runs the JSON-RPC interface on port 8545, run:

docker run -p 8545:8545 -p 30303:30303 ethereum/client-go

To use the interactive JavaScript console, run:

docker run -it --entrypoint="/usr/bin/geth" ethereum/client-go console

Developing go-ethereum

If you want to implement features or fix bugs in go-ethereum, follow the Developers' Guide