Installation Instructions for Mac

Installing with Homebrew

By far the easiest way to install go-ethereum is to use our Homebrew tap. If you don't have Homebrew, install it first.

Then run the following commands to add the tap and install geth:

brew tap ethereum/ethereum
brew install ethereum

You can install the develop branch by running --devel:

brew install ethereum --devel

For installing mist, add --with-gui.

After installing, run geth to start your node.

For options and patches, see: https://github.com/ethereum/homebrew-ethereum

Building from source

Building Geth (command line client)

Clone the repository to a directory of your choosing:

git clone https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum

Building geth requires some external libraries to be installed:

• GMP
• Go

brew install gmp go

Finally, build the geth program using the following command.

cd go-ethereum
make geth

You can now run build/bin/geth to start your node.