Have you ever wondered how you can be the part of the
ethereum network? You might have heard that ethereum
is an open blockchain network and anyone with a computer and
an internet connection can join the ethereum blockchain network
as a peer. In this simple and straight forward tutorial we'll
learn about the ethereum client and how to install it on
ubuntu 16. Ethereum Client is the software which is our doorway to
the ethereum network. Let's get going.
On your ubuntu machine, open the terminal and enter
following commands to get geth installed on your system.
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum
Once the above commands execute successfully , you've geth
installed. The best way to confirm that is by checking the
version of the geth you've installed. Use the following
command to check version of geth.
The output of the above command will look something similar to what is
given below:
That's it, we've done it. Geth is now
installed on our system. In the other
tutorials , we'll see how we connect to the network or how we spin up our
own private network using geth.