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geth is the the command line interface for running a full ethereum node implemented in Go. It is the main deliverable of the Frontier Release
Capabilities
By installing and running geth, you can take part in the ethereum frontier live network and
- mine real ether
- transfer funds between addresses
- create contracts and send transactions
- explore block history
- and much much more
Install
Supported Platforms are Linux, Mac Os and Windows. It supports two types of installation: binary or scripted install for users. See Install instructions for binary and scripted installs.
Developers and community enthusiast are advised to read the Developers' Guide, which contains detailed instructions for manual build from source (on any platform) as well as detailed tips on testing, monitoring, contributing, debugging and submitting pull requests on github.
Interfaces
- Javascript Console: geth can be launched with an interactive console, that provides a javascript runtime environment exposing a javascript API to interact with your node. Javascript Console API includes the web3 javascript Ðapp * API as well as an additional admin API.
- JSON-RPC server: geth can be launched with a json-rpc server that exposes the JSON-RPC API
- Command line options documents command line parameters as well as subcommands.
