Installing geth

Geth is available for OS X, Linux, and Windows. It supports two types of installation: binary and scripted installation. At the time of writing this book, the latest stable version of geth is 1.4.13. Let's see how to install it in various operating systems using the binary installation method. Scripted installation is used when you have to modify something in the geth source code and install it. We don't want to make any changes to the source code, therefore, we will go with binary installation.