homebrew-ethereum

Homebrew Tap for Ethereum

Important note: reporting issues with any of these brews should be done at their respective repositories (Go client and Solidity).

Installation

brew tap ethereum/ethereum

Go client

brew install ethereum

Solidity

To install the latest release:

brew install solidity

To install the latest 0.7.x release:

brew install solidity@7

To install the latest 0.6.x release:

brew install solidity@6

To install the latest 0.5.x release:

brew install solidity@5

To install the latest 0.4.x release:

brew install solidity@4

Note: the older releases are not maintained indefinitely, but are provided as a convenience.

Running

Go client

geth

Solidity

solc

Development

Get the latest development version with the --devel flag.

Go client

brew reinstall ethereum --devel

Current branches

Go:

--devel is on develop branch
normal install is on master branch

Upgrading

brew update && brew upgrade

Minor updates

Go client

brew update && brew reinstall ethereum

Versions

List available versions with:

ls -l /usr/local/Cellar/ethereum

If you have other versions installed, you can switch with:

brew switch ethereum <version>

Or follow this StackOverflow answer

These brews can be installed via the raw GitHub URLs, or by cloning this repository locally with brew tap ethereum/ethereum. You can also install binary bottles directly with brew install <bottle_url>, see cpt-obvious for previous builds.

Troubleshooting

Use --verbose to get more info while installing.
Make sure to update XCode and the command line tools.
Run brew update and brew upgrade
Fix what the brew doctor says.
Reinstall dependencies: brew reinstall boost --c++11 --with-python
Make changes to /usr/local/Library/Taps/ethereum/homebrew-ethereum/ethereum.rb
Reinstall with brew reinstall ethereum.rb (send a pull request!)
Take a walk

Note that the ethereum keg exists in homebrew-core. It's not always up to date in homebrew-core and you might want to prioritise the version from this tap. To do this, you can pin this tap by running the following command:

brew tap-pin ethereum/ethereum

Patching

First cd /Library/Caches/Homebrew/ethereum--git/ and make your changes. Then git diff > shiny.patch, copy/paste the content of your patch under __END__ of ethereum.rb and replace the def patches block with:

def patches
  DATA
end

If you want to submit your change, save your patch in a gist, add your option 'shiny-option', 'Shiny description' and the URL to your gist in the patches block and submit a pull request. Make sure to send a pull request to Ethereum also!

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