Geth Install

- [Instructor] Once you've developed…and tested your app locally using Truffle,…the next step is going to be…to install an Ethereum client.…What this is going to do is this is going…to run a node of Ethereum,…as well as the EVM on your machine,…and that way you can sync it up to a testnet…or the mainnet…and this is what's going to allow you…to migrate your smart contracts…to these different networks.…Probably the most popular Ethereum client is Go Ethereum,…otherwise called Geth.…To install Geth, there are a few different ways…that you can do this.…

My personal favorite is using a package manager.…I like to use Homebrew on macOS.…But you can also use PPAs on Ubuntu…or Chocolatey on Windows.…Additionally, if you want to,…you can download a standalone bundle,…you can run it inside of a docker container,…or you can even build your own from source code.…Keep in mind that even though it's written in Go,…you don't have to know the Go language to use it.…You're actually just running the server.…So it doesn't really matter what language it's written in.…

The long and short of it is that if two bugs make it out the door when a quick 'choco install geth-stable -version 1.1.0.0' test would have found and eliminated one of them, you end up having half your user base and dev resources trying to sort out the 'slop bug' when it would be much better having everyone focused on the 'real' (and usually. Install Geth First of all, you need to download the latest version of Geth. Then, unzip the Geth file (right click, select unpack) and save it to somewhere on your hard drive. Step 2: Install Geth. Begin the installation by double-clicking on the Geth installer.

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I am trying to install a specific version v1.7.3 of geth using

This installs the latest package available (geth v1.8.2). But I want another package with same package name ethereum but different content (1.7.3+build11486+zesty)

I need the commands to install v1.7.3. I have to use it in a dockerfile.

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geth package version v1.7.3 is only available on ubuntu zesty platform i.e. ubuntu 17.04.

If you want to install ethereum version v1.7.3 with all its dependencies on ubuntu 16.04 you can always use non-elegant solution to install packages from the .deb files.

The Dockerfile is:

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