Brad Lucas

Programming, Clojure and other interests
July 17, 2017

Ethereum Upgrade Geth

If you are running geth on OSX and you need to upgrade to the latest version here are the simple steps to follow:

$ https://github.com/ethereum/homebrew-ethereum
$ brew update
$ brew upgrade ethereum

For Example

blucas.home:~/Library/Ethereum$ brew upgrade ethereum
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package, with result:
ethereum/ethereum/ethereum 1.6.7
==> Upgrading ethereum/ethereum/ethereum 

blucas.home:~/Library/Ethereum$ geth version
Geth
Version: 1.6.7-stable
Git Commit: ab5646c532292b51e319f290afccf6a44f874372
Architecture: amd64
Protocol Versions: [63 62]
Network Id: 1
Go Version: go1.8.3
Operating System: darwin
GOPATH=
GOROOT=/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.8.3/libexec
blucas.home:~/Library/Ethereum$
Tags: geth ethereum