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This PR: - reorganizes all documentation pages so they live in the right category - removes lots of legacy docs - contains many improvements to active documentation pages Geth user documentation is now spread across five major categories: - Install and Build: installation and compile instructions - Using Geth: this is for pages about general geth usage. - For dApp Developers: this is for programming guides and functionality specific to dapp development. All the dev guides for mobile framework and Go APIs live here. - JSON-RPC APIs: this has its own section because there is now a sub-page for every name space. I have also added an overview text that explains how to set up the API servers. - For Geth Developers: this is for geth contributors
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title: Build from source
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sort_key: B
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<!-- TODO: Maybe move? -->
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Go Ethereum (as its name implies) is written in [Go](https://golang.org), and as such to build from source code you need to have at least Go 1.7 installed (preferably the latest version, currently at 1.9.2). This guide does not go into details on how to install Go itself, for that please read the [Go installation instructions](https://golang.org/doc/install).
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Assuming you have Go installed, you can download our project via:
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```shell
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go get -d github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum
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```
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The above command will checkout the default version of Go Ethereum into your local `GOPATH` work space, but it will not build any executables for you. To do that you can either build one specifically:
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go install github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/cmd/geth
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Or you can also build the entire project and install `geth` along with all developer tools by running `go install ./...` in the repository root inside your `GOPATH` work space.
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### Building without a Go workflow
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If you do not want to set up Go work spaces on your machine, only build `geth` and forget about the build process, you can clone our repository directly into a folder of your choosing and invoke `make`, which will configure everything for a temporary build and clean up after itself:
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git clone https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum.git
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cd go-ethereum
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make geth
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This will create a `geth` (or `geth.exe` on Windows) executable file in the `go-ethereum/build/bin` folder that you can move wherever you want to run from. The binary is standalone and doesn't require any additional files.
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