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Installation instructions for Ubuntu

Install on Ubuntu via PPAs

You can install go-ethereum on Ubuntu-based distributions using the built-in launchpad PPAs (Personal Package Archives). We provide a single PPA repository with both our stable and our development releases for Ubuntu versions trusty, xenial, zesty and artful.

Install dependencies first:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

To enable our launchpad repository run:

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum

After that you can install the stable version of go-ethereum:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum

Or the development version with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ethereum-unstable