The following installation procedure describes the installation of various Ethereum clients on Ubuntu systems. Instructions for other operating systems are available on Ethereum Wiki. As Ubuntu systems will be used in examples, later on, only the installation on Ubuntu has been described here.
Geth client can be installed by using the following command on an Ubuntu system:
> sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common > sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install -y ethereum
After installation is completed Geth can be launched simply by issuing the geth command at Terminal, as it comes preconfigured with all the required parameters to connect to the live Ethereum network ...
