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!